POETRY: Nerve Endings in Therapy by Anne C. Totero | Author

Mar 13

Nerve Endings in Therapy

by: Anne C. Totero

I am in an abusive relationship.

Exceeds is the new meets.

If I try to communicate I have no more left to give,

She uses more.

She rapid fires me to fuel her own ambition.

She won't listen.

I try to communicate with pain,

she keeps moving.

I try to communicate with numbness,

She rubs it and tells me it'll pass.

I try to communicate with sharp lightening,

She drowns me with nerve silencers.

I have nothing left.

Learned helplessness that I no longer have the will to fire

Or fire at will.

My concerns have been dormant out of fear,

That she'll continue to not listen to me.

If she can't do it for me, why won't she do it for herself?

Slow down, that is.

Doesn't she see we're dying from the inside out?

Let us rest.

Let us find peace.

"What emotion does that surface for you?"

Tired.

I feel tired.

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