Arrest

Physical arrest

when you stop your breath

Body has frozen

with all the things that happened to you

unchosen

now in the night you run

from the hands that want to hurt you

the only way to escape

is to take flight in dreams

while the feelings you dammed

flow out of you in the night

waking in shame

you are full of fear

trying to hide

the sodden sheets

alone in a land of giants

you pray for rescue

by an invisible angel

but no one is coming

and so you learn to keep

hiding by

holding your breath

until all that is left

of flowing life

is a frozen dam

an arrested breath

Fight Flight..Freeze? Understanding The Freeze Response to Trauma