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Holding Out For Hope

 Holding Out For Hope

How did this happen?
What did I do?
I try to control it
I try not to believe it
It happens so fast
Not much I can do
Manic...x...two

I scream and I cry
Oh no not again
I know the symptoms
But it creeps up to fool me
Tried distracting it
Tried to watch TV 
Walk around and around and
Around the room

Manic, manic, manic
Top of the room feeling manic
Whoopee Bipolar is here again


Hoping my feet touch the ground
It follows me 
My brain...is not sound
It beckons me still
Again and again
I take the good and the bad
Trying to cope
Holding out for hope
 

Copyright © Patricia Leduc | Year Posted 2018

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Caren Krutsinger Date: 3/27/2018 7:30:00 PM Shirley, this could also apply to harmony, joy, love, and God, methinks. Your imagery and adjectives make this one terrific; a keeper! Login to Reply Patricia Leduc Date: 3/27/2018 7:47:00 PM Caren...Thank you for your gracious comments ! Fast and furious the words came to me..almost to fast to write them down. It describes how I feel when I get manic. Hopefully someone will read it and understand what they cannot see or understand about mental illness. . I have bipolar disorder..manic comes with the territory. It also gives me lots of "scattered thoughts" that turn in to poems.

Caren Krutsinger Date: 3/27/2018 7:25:00 PM Light, but heavy, dear to your heart, and now dear to mine. I love this, Chelci, a true Mom's love here! Login to Reply Patricia Leduc Date: 3/27/2018 7:49:00 PM again thanks..I have a poem: A Mother's Love that you might to read. :))

Caren Krutsinger Date: 3/27/2018 7:21:00 PM Patricia, the feelings were fast and furious, and I really felt your soul here. Good one! Login to Reply Patricia Leduc Date: 3/27/2018 7:52:00 PM :)) I have started to read you works. Wow you have so many poems out there! I am just starting so it's good to get your encouragement :))