The overall tone of this poem is depressed and hopeless.
This poem makes me feel hurt for the person who was able to write such sad and depressing words. They probably dealt with a lot of issues and problems and it just makes me upset that they had to go through that because nobody deserves to go through the extent of pain that this poem expresses.
The overall message of the poem is the person no longer feels like himself. The person he used to be is gone and he doesn't know what happened to him. He is also frustrated with being depressed and no longer in control of himself or his mind, thoughts and actions.
The most important lines are “Where's the person that I know? They must have left”, “Where is the real me? I'm lost and it kills me” and “I'm paralyzed”
I like this poem because although it is really sad, I admire the writer to have the ability to open up and share so much about his own emotions with the world around him. There is a line in the poem that expresses the idea that he believes that it is his fault he got this way. I can relate to feeling like it is my fault that I have certain personality traits that I don't like about myself. There is a line that explains how he wants to be in control however he feels dissociated with his own body and actions. There is also a line expressing the in between of being alive is miserable for this person but he also still is not so depressed that he wants to take his own life. I thought this was an interesting idea because you would think it's either one or the other but you can be in the middle as well.
My favorite lines are “I'm in a box, But I'm the one who locked me in”, “I wanna feel something, I'm numb inside” and “I'm scared to live but I'm scared to die”
The theme is feeling lost in life
At first he is questioning when he let himself become so depressed. He explains how the things he says don't even feel like there his own words. He says he has no emotions anymore and doesn't know where the person he used to be went. He expresses how living is hard but he is fearful of death and he physically no longer feels anything. He's observing things happening around him rather than experiencing them and also fully blames himself for entering this depressive state.
If this poem were an object it would be a light bulb. This is because a light bulb begins life with full brightness but proceeds to dull over the near end of its life. Finally the light bulb goes out and it is unable to become bright again. I find this similar to what is happening in the poem because the person I'm sure began life very happy. However, as they had to go through tough things they got more and more depressed to the point where there “light bulb went out” and they are now in a fully paralyzed and depressive state.
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