English - NUMBNESS

NUMBNESS

How could one transform love
into numbness?
I can tell you how.

Each second hurts when you must
throw away the memories
treasured in the skin,
delete kisses from the lips,
and mutilate the soft touch of a hand.

It stings your eyes
when you must turn your back
to words that once
were said and believed,
till you find your chest
screaming for dullness!

You look outside your window knowing
that the morning will not bring the voice
that nurtured your dreams,
while you become deaf to harmonies.

You must embrace yourself hard,
and let time go,
allowing the numbness to seat...
...take place in your heart.

While you patiently wait
that it will go away one day,
like the shattered hopes
that are still resting in your soul.


2009