01 August 2015

ptsd(ish) (day 165)

it's not just
for shell-shocked soldiers
or run-down refugees
but anyone
who's endured
delusional discrimination
vocational evisceration
communal condemnation
relational rejection
and consequential
self-loathing
shame-lavishing
self-recriminating
shame-regurgitating
until what's left
of the self
is a shell
in shock

(Sigh.)

Amen.

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