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Numb.

March 23, 2012
By Omgsmeowmix BRONZE, Manvel, Texas
Omgsmeowmix BRONZE, Manvel, Texas
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Numb

Unfeeling
Ignorant
Shut down

Why do you do this?
To me
To yourself
It's pathetic
Depressing
Weak.
You say you love me
Don't lie.
If you love me so much,
Stop.
You project your pains onto us
Every stagger
Every slur
Like a knife to the heart.
You said you were better.
LIES, all lies.
Why do you put us through this?
These are your demons
Your fears
Your skeletons
Your mistakes
And yet we must live with it
What gives you
The right
The power
The permission
To do this to us?
I hate you
For all that you've done
What you're doing now
What you will do
I shouldn't have to live
With your screwups
It's not right
Unfair unjust
The carefully put together barrier
Shattered
By your weakness
Your inabilities
Your patheticness
I don't want this
Never have
Never will
So now
I
Quit

Shut down
Ignorant
Unfeeling

Numb

The author's comments:
This was written after the truth came out about my mom's spiraling condition of alcoholism. Things got pretty bad. I just hope to make people feel with this poem, to move someone.

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