Mental

Purpl moons round squar suns I have mental health issues sorry what tissues if I sneez your verbal diariah...

I'm drowning,
Every day of my life.

I'm being pummelled by the waves,
Choking on the...

I don’t know who this is
I know who it used to be
This body
That face
It can no...

Anchored to the core, it lies in wait,
fertilising every decision with its dormant, bubbling poison...

Lying awake
Heart pounding
Nails digging into your sheets.
Thinking of all the things...

Early on in my young life
I developed the habit- or pattern-
Of becoming dependent on others...

M oping around and you don't no why
E veryone else is happy so why ain't i
N obody can see...

Wonder and wander.
Please hitch my mind with a leash.
Thoughts as travellers, drifters,...

Man From Manhattan

There once was a man from Manhattan
Whose piggy bank his Dad did fatten...

Faces that we see, we confess, only to the images looking back,
With darkness I plead, we undress,...

A place where you give
where you take
when you please
then you leave

...

Sometimes…sometimes
I see outside the box, briefly
Expand my peripheral vision
Perhaps...

Stoic remnant amidst ash and ember,
Kneels, eyes closed, capricious rendered.
Flames consumed...

flu·id
/ˈflo͞oid/
noun
1.
a substance that has no fixed shape and yields easily...

A pill to make me happy
All it does is trap me
A pill to keep me calm
And yet it...

( for a loved one who is having a hard wrestle with mental illness today ❤)

Broken mind... sailing...