Written June 10 2025 for Pick A title volume 52 Contest sponsor Edward Ibeh
Dare I share my intrusive thoughts Once suicidal in a mood so dark I actually tried to stop my heart Using vitamins to sin with life to part It was a low that got so deep Manic tide had overcome me Was hearing voices in trilogies Mad as I was bipolar buried I recall walking outside Collapsed in the sunshine Barely recall ambulance ride Feeling lost wanting to die Intrusive thoughts from deep hell Kept me lost and so very unwell I was a boat without a sail Within my mind in a prison cell Lost many months in a ward Though so sick poetry still soared God used doctors nurses to save A crazy little poet from herself that day
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