Illness Poems - Poems about Illness

Metaphors written in psychedelic ink inside my mind like a projector slide show of insanity. The flying pig in the boiling sea chastses me, I must uncover the cosmic key or the bull will smash all the inventory. I...Read the rest...

The shifting tides of change washed over me like a tidal wave. It was in that moment of chaos and uncertainty that I found my voice, rising above turmoil with a clarity and conviction...Read the rest...

All the dust upon our rolled up sleeves makes us kids seem dirty and in desperate need. I don’t know about you but I’m pretty damn clean. This dust you sneeze on is just a part of me. Wipe...Read the rest...

soothe is an abyss I cannot seem to climb down into. when I realize I am comfortable I feel uncomfortable . calamity is all my body knows. this little blue “calming” pill does little but make one somnolent. sleep deprivation...Read the rest...

Sleepless nights are currency exchanged for nightmares Too ominous to sleep through...Read the rest...

Hands hovering above the sink. The sound of blinds shuttering doesn’t make me blink. The mirror catches all. A shining chasm on the wall. Across the threshold, into the sound. Sounds indistinct so I don’t turn around. I could have crashed,...Read the rest...

Into the darkness I drove the line. With sudden persistence I stuck their spirits. Questions arose about my faith. Under the shadows the powers of the air quake. Through blended fields I struck their souls. Yoking my aura deep into...Read the rest...

I always wish everything I fear Would all simply just disappear....Read the rest...

Artificial means of controlling my own depression For all of these old feelings I've contained through suppression. Sadly never forgetting how others left such an impression....Read the rest...

walking the tightrope along the bridge, highbeams shine from passing cars, she shines brighter, giving the Earth a dim glow, one step follows another, never knowing if the other end will be reached, the city below slumbers, unawares of the show that...Read the rest...

Within Me Trapped within, a tempest roars, Where demons dance and anguish pours, In the haunted halls of my soul's estate, Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate await. Restless whispers haunt my nights, As looming shadows creep by candlelight. No...Read the rest...

[verse] My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long. Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong. For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger. A strange logic, but to reality they were a stranger....Read the rest...

I won't go out in this day's mess Until my hair in golden tress Is braided neatly, oh, so sweetly. Come to me at break of dawn, Or when the day is nearly drawn In my seclusion of delusion. Please make...Read the rest...

What is it That girl who rides that rollercoaster, The one that brings others fear— They call her Brave The truth is she lives for thrill Is it Brave if it doesn’t shake her to the core ? That...Read the rest...

CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...Read the rest...