With a sad, yet powerful, recognition of struggles that individuals with mental health issues face, Niha Hasan discovers the isolation and thoughts of a person dealing with dark themes in her short poem, "Fragments." #mentalhealthawareness #poetry #darkpoetry
Fragments
By Niha Hasan
I gave up!
I gave up and commenced cutting.
Yeah, I commenced. I commenced cutting
my hands to feel something different
Cause those days were the worst nightmare
to live for a second.
Cause those nights were the scariest dread
that brought my life to a dead end.
I switched off my phone,
locked the door and isolated
my dead self in the room.
I blew all my pain up the air
through nicotine.
I swallowed all my frustration
at an unnamed canteen.
