The Poem

This is a poem I have written....
Simply titled,

"Mental Health"  - because this is for everyone.
alcohol abuse, substance abuse, anorexia nervosa, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, bulimia nervosa, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia...


I do not write of things untrue and speak only the honest from my heart
No pretence or false amongst my words, only the truth unravels apart
For I speak on behalf of those who have fallen and battled with the pain
The demons within our souls and the monster lurking within our brain

For when the storm approaches and wraps its phantom thunder around
The lightening threatens above us sending shocking waves through the ground
Our world is quickly changing from a silence calm and clear
A world we were untold of and a world that screams of fear

Slowly creeping forwards or all of a sudden its just there
No way to stop the creature once you're trapped within its lair
Tangled in time and stuck, for aslong as it keeps you caught
A fight that feels so lost, a fight that cannot be taught

For until you feel its wrath, its hatred and its force
You’ll never truly know, the disrupt of its course
Voyaging through waves, over paths that hurt ahead
 Its strength clings to skin, with every word unsaid

Silence sleeps amongst us, while we deny our very needs
Lips stitched tight too fiercely, but inside out inner self pleads
We know we need the help and courage to overcome
The restless weight inside, the monster we've become

I pray that we find sunshine, amongst the rain that falls so cruel
Our bodies will stand taller, the bodies in which we'll rule
As we beat the beasts that caught us, residing within us no more
We will take control and be braver than before.

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