A 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.

Crisi

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