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I walk toward away
Remembering
What I have seen
But nothing I see
Sensing
What I have felt
But nothing I feel
Out and into I fall
I am
Where I have come to
But I am still going
Deteriorating
Copyright © 2009 by Roxanna Gomez Sequeira.
The poet's short, fragmented, disconnected lines really make the reader feel the pain she's experiencing. Among its many, many other uses and virtues, poetry is one way a poet deals with pain.