About dealing with about an indescribable amount of physical pain as well as emotional and mental pain.

Forced forever I’ve got to try and deal
With the torture chamber in my head.
One created so that I’m doomed to fail.
So unrelenting and vicious,
That not event the sickest most demented
Soul would attempt to make real.
Still following the same devious
Pattern, impossible to prepare
For the next higher level of intolerable pain.
Living this battle of nonstop torture,
Just one minute of mine,
Would be enough to drive any other insane.
While inhumane agony continues in my head.
Forever the depth of hopelessness
And depression are endless needs not go unsaid.
My lifelong struggle for a moment of happiness,
Seemingly will forever lie dead.
A different type of hell fought daily, every morning I dread.
As usual, the always winning intolerable side gets fed.
Thoughts I intellectually know to be irrational,
Still end up to haunt my every thought.
My own personal never ending pictograph seamlessly streams
In front of me, even a single moment of peace is so desperately sought.
Unpredictable anxiety and panic attacks and insomnia make any quality of life
Near nonexistent, for years I’ve fought.
Sleep not something taken for granted,
Filled with drugs and still never a ray of hope.
Awake for what seems forever,
Too much time to think,
Too much time, I can no longer cope.
Everything combined creates an indescribable toxic, lethal combination.
Somehow I’m contently waiting for the all too probable day,
When I’ll signal my final salutation.
Until that fleeting day that my hellish tail finally ends,
I’ll continue to fight and struggle, sadly that’s all the advice I have to lend.

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  • Tate Morgan on Feb 13, 2009

    My friend I like this.We each are tested.Atop the mountain one day.Dashed upon the rocks the next.It is how we react to life’s troubles.That matters.So stand and deliver your worst.And the fates will know you as we do.As a woman who will be heard!

  • Lee Altman on Feb 13, 2009

    Great poem. never give up.

  • nutuba on Feb 13, 2009

    The tormenting of your mind is amazingly expressed here. You’ve got a true gift of expression that you’re sharing. It’s deep and heart wrenching and terribly unsettling … and so it’s extremely effective. Keep writing, and use this strength of yours. Don’t ever give up.

  • Joe Dorish on Feb 13, 2009

    Good poem!

  • QuinMonty86 on Feb 13, 2009

    Keep writing, Melody, it’s a way to get through the pain. You express yourself so well, but I hope you have a good support system in place. I fight a similar fight and know how much they mean to me. Please let me know you are not alone.

  • Shari86 on Feb 13, 2009

    Effectively disturbing poem, beautifully expressed.

  • renita on Feb 13, 2009

    Well done. I like it.

  • Joni Keith on Feb 13, 2009

    You are incredibly strong. I feel for you. I hope your writing serves as a release for your pain. God bless.

  • Alicia Wind on Feb 13, 2009

    A good piece, worth to read and an example of how to battle with pain…Keep going!

  • monica55 on Feb 13, 2009

    Wow! I like this a lot Astral. A great way of expressing yourself.
    Monica.

  • Drake Harlem on Feb 13, 2009

    This resonates very closely to where I’m at right now in my own mind.

  • Dee Gold on Feb 13, 2009

    hold on

  • rutherfranc on Feb 13, 2009

    hopelessness and despair but the audacity to survive and hope is evident.. very well expressed!

  • Jenny Heart on Feb 14, 2009

    Great free flowing emotions about pain. Great writing!

  • CutestPrincess on Feb 14, 2009

    well written, you expressed your feelings with words!

  • AC Hamilton III on Feb 14, 2009

    Way to go Astral…..Keep putting it into words with power…fight it always, never let go!

    AC

  • M J katz on Feb 16, 2009

    Hi Astral…you express yourself very well: the point gets across not just to the reader but to the reader’s heart as well. All-encompassing pain…emotional as well as physical…leading to thoughts of a final release is something that so many people have to deal with on a daily basis. Having been a nurse for almost 30 years, I saw so much of this that I finally became a hypnotist who specialized in pain control with the approval of a person’s physician prior to accepting that person as a client. Helping to ease or erradicate someone’s pain when there is nothing more that the medical community can offer except drugs, drugs, and more drugs has been very gratifying to me. When all else fails, I think this is a viable road to check out for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their life after they’ve been told, “there’s nothing more we can do for you.”

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