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Schizophrenia and Me

Good Morning
My old friend
Nice waking up to see you again
Still doing ok?
Cause I am doing fine
Except for these thoughts,dreams and pains of mine

Do not worry over me
I will make it through
Just if you please could stop showing up out of the blue
Scaring me half to death
Along with any woman I ever met
I would greatly appreciate it
Thank you
Yes I remember back when I tried to do you in
Docs told me I could not be your buddy
You pushed my mother away
To the point it was questioned her love for me
Yet our friendship began

You took me places I have never been
To the edge of life itself and back again
Just was me and you friend
All through school I was the loser
Walking those halls 'o hell
I would never that girl amuse her
Many a boys lucky at most proms
Not me
I was home with you and five dames
For the life of me I can not remember their names

I dreamed a dream of dreams
Entering them asleep and awake
You shown me that no death was in my life to take
Or my existence had no goodness sake
Staring at me from the bottom of that lake

I swear one of these days 
I will find someone
So we can go our separate ways
I am not tired of you pal
It is just I am always alone
Even in a group
With my family at home
Speaking to noone on my cell phone
Copying actors off the T.V. 
Wanting to be somebody I can never be
Trying to seem normal
When I knew I was lie
But you took me and made this empty lifeless shell
So that I would not die

You saved my life a thousand times fold
Even now that I am 42 yrs old
What I can I say to you friend?
Where can I go?
That you have not shown me
Or that I do not know

So many times love came and gone
Til I just stop answering the door
I have 2 twin daughters 
Whose mother used your name on court papers
For my name not to be theirs anymore
But it is ok
We never can win
Even when we do not lose
Because I was never a real person 
And we were never friends

This poem is (ALLEGORY) but it is not in the *poem type* list
So I put free verse.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 1/30/2018 6:48:00 AM
What a beautiful write, it really touch my heart, well schizophrenia is one of the worse things, my father suffered from it for over 6 years, but now with God s grace he s fine, in it a person needs love, someone to tell him that everything will be okay, to stand with him, I wish you a very good luck in the future and one last thing, always have faith in God because then you ll never be in depression, you should knoq that God never hurt us more than we can take, good luck
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Date: 1/24/2018 11:32:00 PM
Wow! Michael! I am floored by this write. I thought I had it figured out to the very end, then the twist and I had to reread. I'm in utter amazement, my friend. I cannot believe this gem has been so overlooked.
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