Numb To Your Touch

by Inside the Liar   Feb 25, 2009


Your number is on my cell again
The shrilling ring piercing the night
But I don't have the strength required
To win yet another fight

So I'll roll over in my bed
Try not to think about what went wrong
Numb to your touch, numb to your mind
Numb to knowing we no longer belong

You're calling to beg again,
I know that in my mind
But I don't want to face the truth
That I can never again call you mine

Some days if I wonder if I made the right choice
Leaving you with a broken heart
But pretending I still felt something
Would have only torn us apart

I hope you realize even now
That I really did love you
But when the numbness set in
I didn't know what else to do.

So I left you wondering
About what we were together
Not lovers anymore
Because my numbness lasts forever

Even laying here in bed alone
I know I miss you so much
But I don't seem to feel anything anymore
Because I became numb to your touch.

Copyright 2009 S. Sieglaff

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  • 15 years ago

    by The Prince

    'Your number is on my cell again
    The shrilling ring piercing the night
    But I don't have the strength required
    To win yet another fight'

    Most of your poetry is quite lyrical and song like. The rhyme and flow appears like verse instead of stanzas. The second line was great. Use of 'pierced' was nice.

    'So I'll roll over in my bed
    Try not to think about what went wrong
    Numb to your touch, numb to your mind
    Numb to knowing we no longer belong'

    I know you wrote this for Bliss's contest, and I find it hard to write for a title. I found the flow here was awesome, it's simple to follow yet still remains somewhat poetic.

    'You're calling to beg again,
    I know that in my mind
    But I don't want to face the truth
    That I can never again call you mine'

    I didn't understand this bit - the male persona is calling to beg, yet its obvious from the last line that he doesn't have the same feelings? Just didn't make sense to me.

    'So I left you wondering
    About what we were together
    Not lovers anymore
    Because my numbness lasts forever'

    I like this stanza, it was quite sweet, but I find it hard to pick out pits from these kinds of poems as it's the same sort of message throughout, all I can say about this piece is that I liked it, and it had a nice, consistent flow.