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no more hiding under the bed by diLuisa Photography

Tears flow / from a pain / that is still / raw. / How do I / protect and cradle / that which no longer / fits in my arms? / It burns / in my chest. / I have no air / to breathe this better. / Tell m… 194 words

trauma by Ushna Sardar

extremely insane mind / resting fear / resting unconscious / the subconscious mind / unconscious desires / a strange inhuman sound / living in the circle / Pushed up by lines 388 words

HOW THE LOVE WE NEVER GOT by Blake Steele

— my breast! bird brewed — / until the sky spattered clear / amidst the spiraled soak / of her gold-grown green fear. 88 words

breathing under the water of myself by PJ Ryan

I am watching you; wave. 88 words

A Great Unease by Anthea Slade

How can I sleep when our earth is breaking up? / How can I dance when our land is flooding? / How can I dream when my sisters and brothers are suffering? / How can I imagine the devastation of a gian… 476 words

SURREAL REALITY DESK by JaneAParis

But no one really cares, to them she is always naked, clothed or not clothed… 671 words

ABOUT A WOMAN TOO WILD TO TOUCH by Blake Steele

Her eyes move / like wild ponies, tremble like salt shakers / on a thunder rumbled table. 76 words

Conception by lolowe

I wonder how many of us ever really remember our birth? / How many of us actually remember the feeling / Of our world becoming smaller, / Our bodies being pulled by this divine force, / Willing u… 234 words

From the High Walls by Matt Penrose

Her eyes grew wide as she saw an Achaean lift his arms above the battlement edge, holding a tiny figure in his hands. It was a baby. Ida shook and clenched her fists, her eyes sealed shut… 6572 words

define the missing by Beo Lo

in the middle of the cold winter night / his soul quivers facing wind’s bites / he keeps walking despite silence / face downs, hands tighten / where is he walking? / what is he searching? / def… 213 words

I am without... by YakusokuNono

I am without… a coping method / With no more patience anchored to my back / Words dying on dry lips / Told and screamed in silence; / Written unto paper with invisible ink 242 words

Pre-dawn and Gulf Wars by Marie Monroe

I’ve been writing a bit lately and i see references to the ephemeral dotting that wordy landscape. / When I was pouring coffee just now I pondered this. / What kind of life am I leading where t… 1377 words

On My Own Ground by electriclstorm

I was never meant to be captured… 163 words

Watershed by Pixie-Atelier

I walk so lonely. / And my soundless scream seems so loud, / In my head, / When I lay my head down 112 words

Dead To The World by Mark Bateman

As I watched him he was barely moving. Much in the same way as some poor person who has been in a horrific accident conserves every ounce of energy just to stay alive. So it was with this little chap… 333 words

trauma fixation by charliethetramp

the vomit of an abused soul / in comic malefunction unraveling / the mirror reflects a bitter taste / silence backwards makes no sense / manifestations constantly moving / unpredictable ghosts never … 169 words

Still Standing by Quinn Blackburn

I stand like a Tree surrounded by City. / Harsh, cold concrete binds my roots! / I shift uneasily in this unwelcoming ground… 239 words

GET OUT OF MY HEAD by silverstrummer - David Everitt

You don’t give a toss! / screw my brains! / ITS YOU THAT’S DEAD 173 words

My Dream by MissA

Morgan lived with her mother and father happily in a dainty cottage by the sea. On Morgan’s 10th birthday her mother suddenly vanished without a trace. The police searched for her for 2 years but the… 577 words

OUT OF CUPPED HANDS by Blake Steele

Out of cupped hands / little girls spill laughter in spangles / down gutters grated with silver / and blood. 77 words

Sonnet by fayfayleonie

There wasn’t a bird there, not even one. / Or so she said. 115 words

Soaring by IdKid

Temporal transgressions, muted though they are / Invade in the company of silence 97 words

Scar by Sunshinesmile83

I look down at my wrist / a mark is left behind / why must it stay / can’t it go away / along with red hand prints 120 words

It wasn't Christmas by fayfayleonie

Once / Something happened / And then she stayed away. 91 words

Assessment by wildblackeyes

She can’t see the problem is she’s searching in one place, clawing at the dirt with her one question, / “And why do you think that is?” 979 words

Text Trauma by Solar Zorra

Tears welled up as she realized she’d forgotten her cell phone. Luckily her husband’s best friend, Todd stopped to help her. 152 words

WAITING by JaneAParis

She cried inside and out. She tried to reach him, but she was restrained… 284 words

Digitalis by Micky McGuinness

I read about this guy who cut through the skin, muscle, tendons and bone of his own arm with a pen knife to free himself when he was trapped between a rock and a hard place. / Imagine that. / Imagin… 343 words

How wrong she was by Arletta

How wrong she was, not to fall apart, not to fade away, not to die wretchedly / On she went, unmindful of chattering twits or twittering chats aimed at her / Why do you exist? Why suck our air? Leav… 162 words

karmatic trauma by Marty Yokawonis

karma goes and goes never rising. 6 words

I came back to feed the cat……… by Gortsmum

I died last night. / Technically. / Actually my heart stopped long enough to assure me that it’s not all dust and ashes when your spirit/essence leaves your body. 936 words

The scenes we left behind remain by anaisnais

Embedded in tormented mind , / blood clogged fields, / dangling limbs – contorted. / Whistling ammunition, / gun fire resounds. 16 words

Grizzly Bear Dream... by JaneAParis

…but she was lost in her own sad reflective world, she was very tired from illness and no matter how I begged, I could not get her to care enough to take cover… 272 words

Serenity by dakotagirl

snow falls / lazy flakes / softly covering / scorched earth / razored fence / bloodied hands / gaping wounds / twisted limbs / haunted eyes / snow falls / belying perfect / carnage below / © Janell… 29 words

MR. bunny by pumpkinpatch

But MR. bunny had been warned about this, so he was prepared to watch the syrup distribution carefully, especially when it came to this poor little over syruped kid… 482 words

An OLD YORKSHIREMAN IN NEW YORK. (8) 911 Disbelief a... by John Sunderland

I got my composure back, and focused. I had a mission to get to Life Café and see to things there, get the place open. We had to be there for our own traumatized community. 2221 words

4:05pm 24/11/08 by Creativity4EVA

What I smelt today will haunt me every time I breathe…..What I heard today was gut-wrenching silence of helplessness 105 words

deciphering head trauma by charliethetramp

once upon a time hounded then bitten by a dog / not feeling himself icarus set the house on fire / stonecold sober new age mystics start clonng sheep / the leading lights gave the power back to t… 227 words

I LOST HER AT THE MEGA-MART by John Sunderland

So it’s now been over 48 hours and still no sign of Annie. I went home, and broke the news to the family that we’d lost ma at the MEGA-Mart. 759 words

Shards by DKerr

We were a family once / of a common voice, singing / in strains of harmony / of the dreams we shared, / looking in the mirror as one, / a unit, a single entity . . . / but as in Babylon of old / the … 113 words

Blunt Force Trauma by Emma Nate

’You’re always talking shit’ / He says / Now she hesitates / before speaking / and the words pile up / skid and screech / crashing / He cuts his fingers / fumbling through the / … 89 words

Red Handprints by Sunshinesmile83

For every touch / For every look / A hand print shows up 35 words

A Conversation With My Therapist. by Shaquille Stewart

I will always be a boy, / stuck in this timeless void where there is only / bad romance and melodrama, 671 words

Fear Conceived by IdKid

What species of fear / lives only for you? / Is of this world but / born of one parallel? 140 words

Trauma by thirteenthtale

A car nearly ran him over. ‘Is he lost? Where is he going? The doggy can’t see where he is going, mummy.’ 381 words

TALKING TO MYSELF IN THE DARK by JaneAParis

…on my gravestone, don’t write rest in peace 108 words

RAW by mh004g

I peeled the skin from the bottom of my feet until they bled. / My sister told to stop or I would get blood poisoning. / My mother told me to stop before my feet were scarred. / My father pretended … 61 words

Human rights violations by Initially NO

The psychiatric system currently is a cruel, damaging system of punishment, which does not help, rather wrecks, causes trauma, frightens and crushes those who have committed no crime 1182 words

EVE by electriclstorm

The winds are coming Mama. / I must take flight. 254 words

Don't Look in the Closet by HardworkinJudy

Sometimes something is just to horrendous to share with others… 75 words

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