avatarKallol Mazumdar

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The provided text is a poignant poetic reflection on the internal turmoil and psychological suffering of an individual grappling with complex PTSD, which manifests through vivid and distressing imagery.

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The text unfolds as a harrowing poetic journey into the mind of someone suffering from complex PTSD, a condition where traumatic experiences haunt daily life. It paints a vivid picture of the protagonist's struggle with sanity, depicted through intense metaphors of violence and chaos. The narrative oscillates between moments of hope and episodes of acute distress, reflecting the unpredictable nature of the condition. The protagonist is trapped in a cycle of abuse, reliving moments of domestic and parental trauma, and their mental landscape is a battleground of fear, pain, and resilience. The author uses powerful imagery to convey the depth of the protagonist's internal conflict and the relentless grip of their past traumas. The piece concludes with a note from the author, expressing gratitude for the reader's time and inviting them to support their work, while also providing links to other related writings.

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  • The author conveys a deep sense of entrapment and the daily struggle of living with complex PTSD, suggesting that it is a debilitating condition that can border on schizophrenia.
  • There is an underlying critique of how society overlooks the suffering of individuals with complex PTSD, as the protagonist feels unseen and misunderstood by those around them.
  • The author implies that writing and storytelling serve as therapeutic outlets for dealing with traumatic experiences, as evidenced by the personal note encouraging readers to support their work.
  • The repeated references to violence and predation symbolize the protagonist's perception of their trauma as an ongoing, life-threatening ordeal.
  • The author seems to emphasize the cyclical and inescapable nature of complex PTSD, with the protagonist reliving their trauma in a loop of distress and momentary breakdowns.

Losing autonomy and independence every day

The clock ticks 9, and the jarring feeling envelopes

I am losing my sanity every passing day

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Shhh! He is coming, Maybe today a different arc that will dazzle in the spaces, Today the love won’t obliterate or repudiate,

Today the skins curl up, and bones twist like a loose tale with all ends ending in splits, no tightening joints, everything can happen.

Run, the priest says, Run! Run! Run! All of them will come and claw their hearts out, the skins are torn into shreds.

It is how I am trapped in four walls of home, not knowing, not understanding, the rage of a whimsically fanatic scamster,

That scammed my heart in varying intervals, no matter the clock ticks in noon or afternoon, all ends meet in my skin turning red, bulging in blood,

Sometimes blue and grasp the timeless bird that roams in cataclysm and loves to be, be in the the circle of grotesque predation,

All lurking voices eye her, but then the tiger comes as he comes, as the cheetah turns, he churns, The tiger jumps and swaps his claw across,

Prey’s faces bleed profusely, in a pool of blood, draining fatty remains of its being and body!

Alas, the nocturnal nebula haze his mind frontiers in the courtyards of the palace, as an offering to the Goddess I lay in armed distress. Hands tied in the back.

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Legs buried in a jute sack. Face gutted by the neck plate trapping both ends and as the tiger goes for the kill grabbing by its neck, all worms flee the intestines and eat from the inside.

The executor in the abattoir toil sees my sinking pits and hands ready to be amputated, only if I was that lucky.

The screams and runs for life are always seemingly pleasurable for the psychopath who willingly becomes a sociopath, all eyes never gaze on me.

For what to gaze when the nearer ilk does all that an enemy does, kill the being less and more, the pain matters, for the killing ends suffering.

From stomped, beaten, broken and forgotten, laying and curling behind the sunset tub, I lay in my kingdoms of twisted monarchs all mad like the mad king,

The dragons fly above in abode and all lay in unsinking pits, feeding on man of all ages, till everything turns to ask hashed in cosmic dust,

Earth science is made with the suffering of species, but the weaker voice is the beating drum for everyone alike. No matter who,

If they can, they will kick and call, and trample your heart grabbing it out of your body and laying it atop the pole in the palace's terrace about to be gushed by the wild tempest.

Cosmic Context: This is a jarring fictionalized poetry about a lover men/or woman, whichever gender you may feel comfortable to imagine suffers from complex PTSD also known as permanent PTSD. This is a state where some experiences are so deeply entangled in your subconscious that it haunts you in every stage of life. Bordering on schizophrenia, complex PTSD sufferers reimagine the haunting episode, event, or phase of their lives again and again until they can calm their systems, leading to momentary breakdowns. In this poetic imagery and reflection, the person suffering reimagines their periods of wild domestic abuse (in the case of women) and parental abuse as a child (in the case of men).

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