This is not just a feeling that leaves you grounded in place
This is an instinct that takes control of the veins
Not just the veins but it manifests deeply in the brain
It causes the senses to freeze
This is what it's like to be paralyzed
The lack of air being circulated to the lungs
That is enough to leave anyone numb
The pain of not being able to feel the fingertips
But to hear their faint cry telling you to "snap out of it"
To get with the times and find a way to hide
If the fight or flight stance is no longer a way to help survive
Get a move on to get out alive
Although the muscles are stiff and won't move an inch
The brain yelling but its voice begins to hitch
The heart begins to race
Finding a way to get out of this dangerous place
Pounding against the rib cage again and again weakening it with every strike it makes
All of this to help the body snap out of this state
A state the removes all fear from the eyes
To make sure the host does not go off and die
Being paralyzed can be helpful
But can also be the thing that can cost lives
Overthinking the outcomes instead of taking the first stride
The fear that can be petrifying coming to kiss us a gentle hello and will never say good-bye
Being paralyzed can also leave many traumatized
The remembrance of the situations that ate us alive
Maybe not externally but in the mind
Slowly decompensating and contemplating whether the decision was right
Maybe there was more that could have been done
What if's flooding the mind
Constantly thinking to turn back time
This is the cost of being paralyzed
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Pain and Serenity
PoetryA compilation of poems that reveal the dark thoughts that consume people. Thoughts that are never voiced. Antagonizing thoughts that consume a person that make them self-destructive. A mixture of emotional, mental, and physical conflicts that occu...
