She remembers incidents
the way she knows the back of her hand.
But on some of the memories,
there's a gap.
No matter how hard she tries to recollect them,
she fails."Are there ways to remember the gaps?"
"Yeah, but it's risky to do it by yourself."
"What are the risks? If I do end up doing it wrong."
"More trauma."
She was lost it thought.She just doesn't know how to describe
the feeling of not being able to remember an incident
in which she was there,
she knows who all were there,
but she can't seem to recall what happened."What's wrong with me?" she thought.
Oh, it's called repressed memories,
she figured.
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Trapped in my own head
PoetryShe is an outcast. She finds it easier to express what she feels in the form of writing. Whether it is poems, letters or long texts. These are poems that she writes trying to describe how it feels to live with certain mental health issues, in a worl...