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Freeze

February 13, 2024
By jvand BRONZE, Franklin, Tennessee
jvand BRONZE, Franklin, Tennessee
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Freeze.

Focus on what’s in front of you.

Don’t lose your mind.

Forget the past,

This is nothing to do with what was,

It’s what is to be.


Play.

Back into time.

Forget the past,

Focus on now,

Stay with me.


Fight,

The memories that haunt.

You didn’t do this to me.

Why can’t I be with you,

In this moment.


Run.

Away from the one who did.

Stay with the one,

Who makes you feel safe.


Why?

Am I still hung up,

On the past that I thought

I was over?


How,

Will I get over it?

How do I get back to now,

And forget what happened. 

 

 

I can’t.

I can’t forget what it was,

But I can remember what haunts me,

And use it to move on.

Use it to progress.


Freeze.

Remember where you are.

With people you love.

They didn’t hurt you.

The one who did is long gone. 

He ran across the country.


Worry.

No need to worry,

About what was.

Get over it.


Hurt.

It hurts.

Scratch off every inch of me that he hurt.

Forget what was.


Clean.

Make myself clean again,

But my mind is too far, 

Too far gone to be clean.


Torn.

I am a torn person after what happened,

I freeze, I play,

I fight, I run, I wonder, I worry, I hurt.


Shell.

I am a shell of who I was.

Save me from the shell.

I thought I was better.

But memories haunt,

More than scars.


Freeze, Play, Fight, Run, Why, How, Can’t, Freeze, Worry, Hurt, Clean, Torn, Shell. 

It’s who I am now. 

I can’t go back now that it’s in the past.

I wish I could,

But it’s not possible.

I am frozen.


The author's comments:

A year ago, I was in an abusive relationship, a manipulative relationship. I wrote this to put out what I went through, and how I've been since. Maybe in the hopes that others have dealt with the same thing, and we can all help each other unfreeze.


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