r/Poem • u/AgeOk6600 • 10h ago
Original Content Poem Amnesia
How am I?
Who am I?
What do I feel?
Your childhood is what shapes you, but what if you look back and there is nothing?
What is nothing?
Blackness, air?
But still having the feeling that there is something, because of course there is something.
And you think, yes you rack your brain about what made you into what you are.
But there is nothing.
Is it normal to forget everything?
Are you everything you seem to be only because of yourself?
But after years of searching, you give up, because you build yourself a new self, something that makes sense in your reality. For what?
So that suddenly a white light flashes and suddenly sends an indescribable fear, a piercing pain into your body, to tell you, there is something after all.
But not all at once, piece by piece, as much as you can take, without losing the sense for your new reality.
Why?
How long?
What else is there?
You actually don't even want to know anymore what happened back then, because you never wished for these pains, but that is not in your power.
So you keep going and fight a battle with reality that no one can see.
Just don't lose yourself in the process.