Flat Affect

I am a stone

I do not care

I haven’t got

A soul to bare.

 

Numb from within

Pain from without

Yet no response

No cry, no shout.

 

Anger without expression

And without fear

I walk into the fire

And cannot shed a tear.

 

Remorse with no reaction

Sadness without gain

Where is an emotion

To take away my pain?

 

Locked away inside

Forever is my heart

Always held a captive

No feeling to impart.

 

A prisoner of sorts

Of which I have no choice

I scream aloud and silence

Echoes in my voice.

 

Emotions from my mind

Move outward to my eye

Then down into my heart

Where they fade away and die.

Reviews

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A great flow to this piece that relates well, good read. well done.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

nice meter to this...a smooth flow and well done on the rhyme (even though i am not a big fan of rhyme)...but i do like the theme and feeling of this poem...

jacob

[Mercury Rising]

Thank you very much for your compliments. The poem is actually about how some antidepressants can render a person seemingly without emotion ... how you feel the emotions but somehow don't have the will to express them. Or, perhaps, it's time for a new medication on my part! lol :)