The Hurt Doesn’t Hurt Anymore

A Poem About Pain

Arslan Ali
The POM
Published in
Nov 7, 2020

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Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash

Trigger warning: Suicide

The hurt doesn’t hurt anymore
the water isn’t cold anymore
nothing hurts like before.

Anxiety-ridden, that’s how I’ve been living
all the places I went, they've been unforgiving
My pain never stopped digging
Will I ever find something relieving?

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Arslan Ali
The POM

Code artist by the day, writer by the night. Bookworm living in Italy.