Numb Reflections
When did they leave?
When did the emotions fade away?
We learn to smile through insults,
Apologies at the front of our vocabulary.
Joking inappropriately to feel something,
Staying silent when we are meant to break.
We stand – hollow, emotionless.
Now numb, cold, and forgotten,
We drift through chaos like ghosts,
Gliding through emergencies, through trauma –
Emotionless.
When did our emotions die?
We have seen it all –
Seen everyone,
Seen everything,
Yet never ourselves.
When we look in the mirror,
We stare and stare,
But can’t find ourselves in the reflection,
Can’t recognize the person staring back.
Where did we go?
When was it?
What was it?
The last tear?
The last laugh?
I look again at the reflection –
Staring, empty.
An emotionless ghost,
A shell of who I once was.
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