My body has learned by heart <br />What my eyes have long forgotten <br />Entrusted long ago with deadly visions <br />These entrenched dark and dangerous secrets <br />Guarded tightly by those faithful curators inside <br />Held in jagged pieces by little and big hands. <br /> <br />I feel them there beneath my deadened skin <br />They use my hollow eyes to peer at the world <br />Kicking and screaming they feel the pain <br />Absorbing it, gripping it for the coward in me <br />My body shakes and trembles for them <br />I cannot escape completely, as we are one. <br /> <br />Too big to be remembered for fear of consuming me <br />Too big to be forgotten for they won’t let me <br />Only in my dreams they haunt my tranquility <br />Moaning and weeping I see unrecognizable terror <br />Awakening to little ones crying and big ones irate <br />Fighting with myself I refuse to hear their messages. <br /> <br />The wall of resistance deadens their ghostly wails <br />Walking onward with ambivalence through the day <br />My skin crawls with remnants of yesterday’s pain <br />Desperate clawing at my skull reminds me again <br />Evil that escaped my youthful mind <br />Is evil the body never forgets. <br /> <br /> <br />http: //allpoetry.com/poem/4549695<br /><br />Kim Schilling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-body-never-forgets/
