Emotional numbness Poems
103. Elastic Potential
by Kea Campbell
My peanut butter eyes on caramel silk skin.
Butterflies flutter—folding in and famished—
beating and bowing before my bile-slick stomach.
Flirting with my heart—an empty love, lost and lame.
Pupils glued to my toes,
a sight caught in the corner of my vision—
bleeding blurry.
Fain to find myself blighted thin.
Shadows march through my veins—
......
Sludge
by Martin Soliman
Endless and restless,
Grey and tasteless,
Sludge, surrounding me
Still observing
Nothing concerning,
Confusing me
Sinking and scratching,
Clawing and crawling
......
103. Elastic Potential
by Kea Campbell
My peanut butter eyes on caramel silk skin.
Butterflies flutter—folding in and famished—
beating and bowing before my bile-slick stomach.
Flirting with my heart—an empty love, lost and lame.
Pupils glued to my toes,
a sight caught in the corner of my vision—
bleeding blurry.
Fain to find myself blighted thin.
Shadows march through my veins—
......
Sludge
by Martin Soliman
Endless and restless,
Grey and tasteless,
Sludge, surrounding me
Still observing
Nothing concerning,
Confusing me
Sinking and scratching,
Clawing and crawling
......
