All posts tagged: PTSD

Trigger Warning

23 Aug 2018
by Nathalie Sheridan
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Poem

Like light and dark Like clouds crossing the ocean So cross your feelings Bobbing with the waves Push and pull Come closer I need you Go away I hate you That’s how it works The traumatized self Can’t cope alone Can’t cope together Must find someone to hate To leash out to Must have an enemy Because every enemy created is better Is saver then the enemy within The one you can’t escape The one […]

Is the ocean really full of tears?

1 Jun 2016
by Nathalie Sheridan
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Poem

Cried by mermaids? Cried by you? I wonder. I ponder. As I watch tiny droplets turn from crimson to gold. Who else would cry so much? All the wars? The ones with weapons, the ones without. There is no space for tears. All the hunger? From lack of food, from lack of love. There is no energy for tears. All the violence? Sin against bodies, sin against souls? There is no breath for tears. So […]