Poetry ~Numbness~

Numbness

Sometimes I can't see at all
except for frightening conclusions I have made

I see myself falling
before the edge is even near
I see the lightning strike me
though the sky is blue and clear

and I think of the choices
that were never saved

Sometimes I can't feel at all
past impressions of failure I have escaped

I feel the mistakes being made
before the opportunity's even there
I feel the wrong chances being taken
and am filled with bottomless fear

and I feel as though my soul
is slowly by numbness being raped