How long would you last without even a sprinkle of emotion?

Before you’d risk it all just to be able to feel one damn thing?

While you lay down looking up

At cracks coursing through the ceiling

And listen to the crack of your jaw

Attempting to conjure any thoughts

At all

Anxiously chewing your pen waiting on the words to begin again

Knowing nothing nowhere is quick

Enough to hold the numbness at bay

The numb feeling seeping through your body as fast as poison seeps in your skin

When it covers your brain you begin

You look once again at the cracks in the ceiling

This time hoping the cracks crumble,

Cave in and bury you in the rubble

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Lynsey Palmer

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