My Voice

*TRIGGER WARNING*

I wrote this last night when I was drunk, quite a running theme for when I write emotional poetry...the only time I can write about bad stuff that's happened...which probably isn't great.
Anyhoo....here it is:

Please don't talk to me,

Please talk to me,

I'm sorry I'm not here,

I checked out a while ago.

I always want to talk to people,

but I can't.

I feel that when the bad thing happened,

his dick stole my voice,

stole an essential part of my soul.

Lots of terrible things happened before that,

but after that,

that one particular night,

2 hours to be exact,

I couldn't find it within myself to talk,

to even look at others.

It's like,

everything that happened just took over,

became an unbudging boulder,

over everything.

Leaving only a half-assed attempt mask of who I was before.

Thankfully most people can't see through it,

Can't see how truly destroyed I am.

How much I'm not really here.

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This poem is about rape and about how he took so much more than my dignity. I feel like my dignity was somewhat easier to get back....I think. This is really difficult to write (talk) about.

I think people think that I'm being rude when I don't talk to them or run away from them when they try to speak to me but that's really not the case...I get afraid...terrified that people can see how much pain I'm in. I also can't socialise the way I used to anymore, I can't strike up casual conversation, I can't joke around and laugh at trivial things anymore, I'm afraid that people can see how awkward and different I am now. I don't like meeting up with people I knew before because I think they can sense that I'm not the same and I want to be the person that they knew but I'm really not. I also used to be really good at making new friends, starting up conversations from nowhere but even that's harder than making cheese out of playdough. A lot of the time I also just don't have anything to say, like all my words, my ability to make words has been taken away, sucked into an endless unforgiving vacuum. The effort it takes to try and pretend that the worst thing that could have possibly happened didn't indeed happen is astronomically tiring. It makes me want to spend all my time alone because then I don't have to speak, don't have to put on an act, I can just breathe and be me. Me who is now very quiet.

(I feel I should add this; CBD oil has helped me deal with these issues quite a bit and I'm on a journey to getting my good auld sociable self back but it's still really difficult and I've got a really long way to go. I can, at the very least, say that I am trying and I try to take each day as it comes. I guess all you can do is try and hopefully one day you'll get to your destination.
I'm also still able to talk to close friends, some family members, and a few workers, which I'm very thankful for but I can't go through my whole life being mute around everyone else, especially when I'd love to talk to everyone.)

I don't know if any of this makes sense but I know that nobody really reads this so I guess it doesn't have to make sense. I guess I'm using this as a coping mechanism and nobody else has to view it for it to work for me.

I wish I could share this with more people but I feel so up my own arse sharing the link, like I think it's great and I'm proud of myself for being able to write about stuff but I think/worry that I'm oversharing and people just want me to shut the fuck up. 

I hope that anyone who reads this enjoys it and has a wonderful day. :)