There’s a dark place where I used to live that sucked me in down deep.
The walls were huge, imprisoning and slippery and steep.
Anxiety, depression, panic attacks just grew and grew and grew,
until I felt so ill I couldn’t cope anymore with what to do.
My mind grew foggy, and illnesses came to me more and more.
I felt I was going crazy immobilised to my core,
Then slowly the dark place lightened as I climbed out bit by bit,
painful, steep and torturous I was supported out that pit
I’ve now escaped that awful place that used to be my home
but every now and then I hate back there my mind will roam.
And triggers from that dark time make me anxious worried teary, immobilised and scared, my body and mind so weary.
There’s a dark place where I used to live that sucked me in down deep,
but despite the odd visit back there I’m out, loved and not needing to weep.
Mortals
By Michelle Morris
31/03/2023
Here we mortals turn to stone
By our hardened hearts
And callous disregard
For each other and our planet
Let us embrace our humanity
And melt the hardness and tar
That holds us down and immobilised
That keeps us from freeing our souls
Imagine the light that burns deep within
It's inside you and ignites your soul
For you are starlight and stardust
The Universe's magic untold
Here we mortals can illuminate
The dark abyss and limitations
When we remember our true forms
Greater than humanhood bred or born
Let us embrace our divinity
And free the bonds for all to feel
So that we can rise higher and incandescent
Collectively beyond the present
© Michelle Morris, 2023
subtle it starts, those thoughts of you
so cunning and quick, little I can do
with each pounce unexpected
claws dug in my mind
Love has me infected
no cure to find . . . .
loudly it roars! with every heartbeat
I sense the excitement
a moments defeat
my soul so enlightened
and still my knees weak.
Unable to run, no sense in escape
hooked by those eyes
im caught in a state
immobilised
by the antics of fate.
So here I stand, to you to surrender
you've won the heart
of a vagabond roaming
upon you to ponder,
however still knowing
your truelly a wonder
my smile fondly showing.
companions, companions, together to be
for that is the wish of the lover in me,
you're beauty is your nature
you're nature is free
tamed not by no master
amazing to see.
lets travel together, in search of a place
where we rest assured, our love shows its face.
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