She rakes her nails along her skin

Needing to find a way to feel

She’ll dig and dig until there’s blood

To remind her she’s still real

Without the pain she’s just a shell

Existing in an endless void

Spirit buried deep in her heart

Any semblance of a child destroyed

Her body’s riddled with scars

Self-inflicted over the years

They mark her inner struggles

They mask her deepest fears

She taught herself to shut down

To never show her fear

She gradually became numb

She never sheds a tear

Regardless where she finds herself

She’s stuck behind her shield

Constructed very long ago

Before her scars had healed

JKC

(Before anyone goes off on me and gets all worried about me. I’m not writing this about my experiences. We’ve been going through junk in our house, because we have so much to clear out, and I found a painting that a young lady painted for me back when I had a career. This has put her in my mind, remembering her story and her pain and her scars. She’s been in my head…)
To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health Topic List.

Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!