sometimesihatemycat

My body has abandoned me
It left
Nothing but a heavy hole inside
My chest

I lift my fists from pockets deep
To feel
Both sweaty clench and winter chill
Surreal

To let these worlds inside and out
Combine
Almost presents as possible this
Time

-a.r.

Painting by Catherine Maroney, found here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/202460460/original-oil-painting-hands-underwater

~ by April on January 27, 2016.

Posted in Abuse, Body, Humanity, Meditation, Poetry
Tags: Body, Child Sexual Abuse, Child Sexual Abuse Recovery, Detachment, Dissociation, Feel, Hands, Impermanence, meditation, numb, Patience, Poetry, present moment, PTSD, Reattachment, Recovery, Sensorium, Time