In The Shadows Of My Mind

In the most simple of terms PTSD is the inability to forget or lessen the impact your memories have on you.

In the shadows by myself,
In the deep recesses of my mind,
I am haunted by the thoughts of my past,
Like a ghost in time,
I can see but never change,
And I twist and turn with the agony of the life I once knew.

Author's Note

This is the first poem I ever wrote when I was 14 years old not including, of course, those two poems I wrote when I was 6 about the screech owl and the airplane, respectively. It took me a long time to fully understand what this poem meant to me which is why I'm posting it because it still holds true in many ways.

Reviews

[J. Randall Dodd]

rasika,

very nice indeed. sometimes when we go back a thumb through the pages past, we discover that we've always been a bit more intuitive than we believed. this is a beautiful poem. i only have a few minor suggestions in making it stronger:

In the shadows by myself,
In the deep recesses of my mind,
I am haunted by the thoughts of my past[;]
Like a ghost in time,
I can see[,] but never change[--]
And [so,] I twist and turn
[with the agony of the life I once knew.]

that's it. once again, i want to say that i enjoyed this work very much. later.

sincerely,
jr