--- title: Numb date: 2011-08-09T17:07:49Z modified: 2011-08-09T17:07:49Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/numb/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1151 categories: - Sad Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Numbness_Isolation.jpg" featured_image_alt: Numbness author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2011-08-09T17:07:49Z tags: - Sad Poems --- as the sun rises, like a zombie,![Numbness](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Numbness_Isolation.jpg "Numbness") trapped in this dream i watch life pass by; i wandered alone, fighting all that came in my way, struggling to make sense of this war, that does not seem to stop; a shell of what i used to be, i wear a mask to hide me from the vultures that prowl all around, wanting something to chew on; no emotion, no pain and, no happiness, just a **haunted emptiness**; yelling and screaming, hiding behind closed doors, watching life pass by with my [empty](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/loneliness-and-emptiness.md) eyes; alone i sit, in the grip of darkness, as the arms of [silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) slowly engulf me, a strange numbess takes over me;