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Mar 06, 2024
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The Transition
Here’s the thing about being bipolar
Everyone knows about
the depression…
Everyone knows about
the mania…
But no one knows about
The time in between
The transition
Between phases
You feel nothing.
You feel numb.
I can’t cry
I can’t laugh
I can’t yell
I can’t feel
It’s as if
Something crawled under my skin
And into my soul
And took everything when it left.
And here I am,
Left with my emptiness
My nothingness
Waiting for the next phase…
About This Poem
Style/Type: Free verse
Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing Stage: Editing - draft
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neopoet
1 year 4 months ago
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Leslie
1 year 4 months ago
Kristen H.
You can't even get "comfortably numb". It's like living on "gray street at the end of the world." No satisfaction whatsoever.
Kristen H.
1 year 4 months ago
Exactly!
Very well said, Leslie! Thanks for commenting!
Geezer
1 year 4 months ago
I can...
only imagine how bad it is to be stuck like that. You have described that emptiness in plain, drab, silent words that lie across
the path; obliterating your very footprints. ~ Geez.
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Kristen H.
1 year 4 months ago
Thank you...
The transition between phases is hard to grasp when you haven't experienced it firsthand, but I wouldn't wish it on anyone... It is a daunting feeling, when you know one phase is ending, because you know this transition is coming.
Thank you for your feedback, Geezer! Always appreciated!
RoseBlack
1 year 4 months ago
An honest write
I wouldn't wish any of it on anyone but the feeling of being stuck in limbo is the worst. You have described the feeling perfectly. Well done.