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Broken Conscience

A Poem About Madness

By Maia Gadwall the metAlchemistPublished 4 years ago 1 min read
Broken Conscience
Photo by Marianna Smiley on Unsplash

Attention spreading wider now

To everything I see

Taking in the sights around

For something within me

Because right now there's nothing there

There's nothing left inside

Except my broken conscience

Behind which I cannot hide

Hide from all my memories

The pain in which I drown

I fear their reoccurrence

And thus by that fear, I'm bound

To the terror of recalling

The dreams lost within my mind

And surcease from endless torture

I have long since sought to find

But this broken, useless conscience

Gives no sturdy shield to me

So on again I march alone

Besieged by misery

sad poetry

About the Creator

Maia Gadwall the metAlchemist

I fell in love with speculative fiction and poetry many years ago, but I have precious little time to write any. Then, I went crazy and started a cult called metAlchemy, or meta alchemy. I revere energy of all brands, esp. good, kind chaos.

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  • Jennifer Plate VanHoy4 years ago

    So lonely

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