Challenge
Poetry with Symbolism - Metaphors of Dissociation
Write a poem [any type] about dissociation. Try to use abstract ideas, concepts and details to give a sense of depth on how it affects you or the person feeling it.
Who Am I?
And so, I fall incompletely,
inadequately -
to pieces.
Depression's dirty hands smothering me.
I hear the toll of the dark bell;
I hear the moans escape my usually mute mouth.
I am lost again.
Detached and gone away
from this reality.
I do not know who I am,
or what purpose I give to this dimension I am bound to.
Once a mother,
now banished and ridiculed.
Once a daughter,
only to find it doesn't matter with me.
Once a lover,
but oh, how the love never rides for me!
Just who am I to be
in a world so uncaring?
Launched into the depths of madness
that I cannot break free of.
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