A Wounded Warriors Confessions
Once again, another “My Battle” piece. I’m on a role this evening apparently, or it could just be my soul trying yet another method to reach me and show me how wounded I really am at the moment. Just like the previous 3 poems, this is yet another brutal, vulnerable, straight forward poem reflecting my current mental position. Although these words seem to be flowing out me this evening, they seem to still cut deeply when I read them written out in front of me. These poems are RAW emotion that I have not allowed myself to feel, in... clearly... too long... and now its breaking out of me in every direction, still screaming at me, that something, inside of me, is very much... in the wrong place and it seems to be getting continually more defeating...
I want to drown,
Just to feel that air rush into my lungs as I finally reach the surface.
I want to leave all that I know,
Just to have the freedom from my endless jail bars that surround me.
I want to run till my feet can no longer carry me,
Just to attempt to escape this hell within me.
I want to disappear from even my own mind,
Just to pretend for a moment, that i’m not completely lost inside this dark forest where I can see those red demon eyes shining back at me in every direction.
I want to cut out this over-sized broken heart,
Just so that I don’t have to care where I land.
I know I am not this person.
Yes I am wounded, but I am a Wounded Warrior,
That has always tried to remain in self control,
While forcing early healing in order to survive the next battle.
However, now there is this gaping, unforgiving hole in the centre of my chest
And I no longer can hold in this control.
I no longer have the strength it requires to hold all the weight of this anymore.