Darren White Poet Prose Poetry

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The Crowd That Is Me - Mental Hospital 4

It is a strange inner world, if you live there alone. In me eight boys hide, a couple of villains, some discarded toys, screeching birds, and overall a host of an undefined kind.
This is an astonishing accomplishment, largely because I live in a small frame, all the same they fit in there, a strange affair, I admit.

The men in white, with their syringes an multi-coloured pills don't like this. Despite the fact that they are very rambunctious themselves - while doing their chores they slam doors, yell at people, laugh proud at their own jokes - they hate the silent noise of my inside crowd, while no one's loud!

The boring lives they live, they think it can give them the right to interfere, they're only satisied if no one's here but single me...
And so I swallow pills, yellow, white or even green, and in a wink of an eye they're gone, I blink.... poooooof.

If only they would have a pill that will erase annoying people that rule my life, Wouldn't that be great? No reason anymore to debate or argue, such peace... Can I have that today?

Please?

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May 8, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White

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Debjani Mitra August 26, 2018 at 4:12 AM it's such a wonderful piece. ..

Maria Williams May 10, 2017 at 3:45 AM Dear Darren , your therapeutic poetry will send the monsters scurrying, taking the men in white with them, so keep writing my beautiful friend. A Super 7++...Maria xxx Darren White May 10, 2017 at 3:51 AM Thank you! The men in white with their syringes and multi-coloured pills can stay, but they should behave! ;)

Elissa Quigley May 8, 2017 at 1:34 PM I love this alot. somedays I really need one of those annyoing-people-away pills that would be amazing. Especially in highschool. Thank you for the write Darren White May 8, 2017 at 1:36 PM Yes, wouldn't it be just wonderful? Unless of course everyone starts swallowing them, hah!

Miraj Raha May 8, 2017 at 10:45 AM I can strongly relate to this, I so wish to be happy with my inner crowd, but what would they understand, they are busy doing their chores.Excellent write darren. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 11:38 AM Exactly :) Thanks for understanding Miraj.

Anne-Marie Coreggia May 8, 2017 at 9:50 AM I very much enjoyed this write of yours Darren. Maybe, if you can have all the voices that inhabit you bloom in your poetry then, as you give them space they may slowly detach themselves, be reabsorbed, and healed:) Amitiés Darren White May 9, 2017 at 1:02 PM :) *nods* Anne-Marie Coreggia May 9, 2017 at 5:22 AM Tu as raison Darren et c'est parfois dans cette incompréhensibilité que naît la plus belle des magies créatrices. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 10:42 AM Hehe, I can tell you what I told Chris below. The life I lived is good for a lot of poetry. The way I am also is. I know it is hard to understand, but I know no other life. This is me and of course I will change, I have changed already, it's a slow process. La vie, elle est parfois incompréhensible n'est-ce pas? :)

Ravi Sathasivam May 8, 2017 at 8:45 AM Excellent. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing it. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 8:50 AM Ravi, thank you so very much for liking my poem :)

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart May 8, 2017 at 8:40 AM Lol! Love it sweet Poet! 7 Darren White May 8, 2017 at 8:44 AM yo ma mo! 'allo 'allo! It is, isn't it? :D

Lin Lane May 8, 2017 at 8:31 AM Unfortunately, no pill exists that can remove annoyances from our lives, be they people or situations. We can choose to ignore those things that tend to rattle us...not always easy to do, but the results are wonderful. Darren, your prose if filled with internal rhyme. Quite an impressive feat. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 8:36 AM Thanks for noticing Lin, the internal rhyme is practicing/training ground for a long poem/play I am composing, entirely with internal rhyme, plus added poems in a specific meter and form.

Chris Green May 8, 2017 at 8:02 AM I believe the prescription can be found in poetry my friend, just keep writing and those annoying people will slowly disappear. really cool, I liked this a lot. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 8:06 AM Thank you Chris :) The annoying people outside already have 4 tributes now, the ones inside however are a continuous and endless source of inspiration!

Tim Smith May 8, 2017 at 7:53 AM Wish we had a pill for that. Have a great afternoon. See you in a little while. Darren White May 8, 2017 at 7:57 AM Morning my friend! Thank you :)