Mental Pain

Do you know how to cope with pain?
The kind that lingers in your brain.
The more you try to change its course,
The more it smiles without remorse.

Its tentacles reach inside your heart,
And then it tears your soul apart.
This mental pain that comes from hell,
Confines your sanity in a cell.

But when you look inside your self,
You start to put it on a shelf.
For mental pain is but a thought,
And you can cure the pain you wrought.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Leduc Avatar
February 17, 2018 at 1:47 PM
I'd settle for sanity..sometimes out of reach. I enjoy reading all of your poems :))
Blanca Avatar
February 17, 2018 at 7:59 PM
My friend, you have a kind and considerate spirit.
Kinch  Avatar
December 27, 2017 at 2:23 PM
My daughter suffers from depression I keep trying to get her to meditate, to look inside herself and change her thoughts. Your write is so true, mental pain is but a thought. Brilliant Carlos
Blanca Avatar
December 29, 2017 at 1:06 PM
Oh Elizabeth, thank you for sharing. Depresion is real and all we can do is give love and support. We must live in the moment and let go of the pass.
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