Anthony Hanible

Psychological Damage

Mind scarred

Ravaged

Spirit stitched  

And split  

And savaged  

By thought

Cognitive carnage

Phantoms barrage it

Echoes carve  

Their quiet  

Passage  

Through bone

Neural wreckage

shadow stacked message

Memories molten

Broken 

Presaged  

By fear

Trauma tide rising

Visions devising  

Cryptic scripts  

That keep  

Revising  

My pulse

Psychic corrosion

Fractured implosion

Sorrow swirling  

In slow  

Erosion  

Of self

Mind maze twisting

Nightmares insisting

Every whisper  

Cold  

And listing  

My sins

Soul scar ledger

Etched with pressure

Every tremor  

A dark  

Forever  

Unseen

Inner abyssal

Echoes epistle

Truth turns feral

Sharp  

And fissile  

Inside

Damage delivered

Spirit slivered

Yet the core  

Remains  

Unshivered

Still moves