Emotional overload

• Stephanie Tam, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2004

~ Emotional Overload ~

Lost in a private hell,
Salvation closed its door and left me in the dark,
Without a light to lead me home,
Darkness engulfing me with its endless hunger,
The willpower to hold on to the fragments of hope,
Vanishing before my eyes,
But still falling in my mind,

A struggle to stand tall,
Away from the shadows grasp,
Struggle turns to still- from anger to whimpering,

Emotional overload…
Violent actions happened here,

Fear gone,
Pain a trench inflicted like an invisible scar
Unseen by the common eye but felt by the victim,
What he has stolen can never be returned.