triggers triggers yet they
fall before me
yellow purple
what colors do I notice
palm trees beach views
something I see there
is called home.
I can feel the dust on my tongue
yet as they dissolve and then solve all my
issues.
clinically and emotionally why
Does this little tabloid make me gain weight
I can’t seem to shake
All because I am a
schizoid.
Polarity showed up tonight in the small white pill resting in my palm—assurance and biological impedance within the same small shape. My endocrinologist believes taking it will rebuild my bone's density, coaxing my body to better use protein, collagen, and various minerals in places where time and age have thinned my bone's structure. But the pill brings its own polarity: it promises stronger bones even as a wave of morning-sickness nausea steals my comfort. Still, I take it, gratitude and resentment settling side by side in my heart. I’ve come to realize that sometimes polarity isn’t abstract. It’s real as real can be with me coping with two opposing truths coexisting.
white stone of healing~
a tide pulls both ways inside,
moor and undertow
On this morning I’ve been in an anxious state,
I’ve taken my meds as normal -
Which I would have done no matter what state I woke up in.
Mental health medication medicates mental health,
But that doesn’t mean that mindset doesn’t matter,
And not for the sake of the mentality of our outsiders.
We’re not a herd,
But we’ll be heard together -
Not just when we ask for our prescriptions.
Away, we take our medication
After weeks in advance of preparation,
Explaining we need it prepared in advance to take away.
We ride through the times when the listeners we seek
Are too bogged down to hear about what’s bogging our brains
That medication cannot take away.
OTC DRUGS
I'm reluctant to take otc drugs
My main concern is side effects
I have an uncle and aunt and
With them I try not to connect
Auntie Histamine and I
Do not see eye to eye
I took Auntie Histamine once
And for 2 days I thought I'd die
Uncle Tylenol and I get along
Somewhat better, I'd like to report
But I only take Uncle Ty as
An absolute last resort
I'm not sure where they fit on our family tree
But I'm convinced they are on my wife's side
I'll check again on Ancestry
And possibly find where they hide
HAPPY THANKSGIVING I AM BLESSED RETURN HOME AUDI PARKED I AM QUICKLY REMINDED OF MY DESPERATE PLEAS THANK GOD I RELOCATED JUST IN TIME SECTION 8 HOUSING SAVED ME AND MY FAMILY FROM BECOMING VICTIMS OF THE STRANGE AUDI PARKED INSIDE ON THE FLOOR A DEAD WOMAN COULD THE KILLER BEEN SENT TO MURDER ME MY CHILDREN HERE WE ARE AGAIN AUDI PARKED HEART MEDICATION TAMPERED WITH ELOQUIS FIR MY AFIBRILLATION IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS ALSO HELPS WITH BLOOD CLOTS METOPROROL FIR SEVERE CHEST PAINS MY GOD I FEEL VIOLATED ABD SAD FIR MY NEIGHBOR BREAKING IN MY HOME TO TREAT A HEART PATIENT WITH TIES TO THE DEAD WOMANS PARKED AUDI IS IT CIRO THE MAFIA THE KIDNAPPERS THE THREATS RETURN I AM LIVID ANGRY HOW DARE MY NEIGHBORS ACTION BREAK IN MY HOME USING KEYS HE REKEYED OUR LOCKS AGAIN USE CAR USED GOLF CART SALEMAN USUALLY HAVE SPECIAL EQUIPMENT TO REPLACE ABD DUPLICATE LOCKS FOR MONTHS NOW EVERY TIME WE RETURN HOME ELOQUIS METOPROROL TRAMADOL KLONOPIN EVEN VIAGRA FUNNY I FEEL SAD FOR MY BURGULARS WITH HEART CONDITION OR PERHAPS AN ELDERLY PERSON WITH NO INSURANCE
Higher meditation
Out of touch is out of sight
So let silence be the key
Penetrate through the depth of darkness to catch a light
Remember let silence be the key
Higher meditation
There is a voice in silence
If you listen in silence a revelation is sure
So be endowed with focus
Maintain your direction towards
The voice in silence
Remember it revelation
Meditation, is a medication for the soul
Catapulting you into realms of serenity
Giving clarity, to act in any situation
Meditation yields calmness
The remedy for a disrupt mind
Connects you with the divine
Enhancing a communion with the Almighty
Sanitizing your thoughts and emotions.
Calmness is prior
The sharpener of thoughts
Helps to make a decision
Improving your emotional regulation
Always enhancing your focus
Reducing your stress and anxiety
Making you bold and whole not old.
Meditation leads to calmness
Birthing self awareness
Eliminating all that no longer serve you
Aligning you with the present
Dissolving all negative thoughts and emotions
Making you patient and solid
Meditation is a medication for all spirituality.
In three months I’ll turn thirty
And my sister will still be 25
Three months seems so long when
All you can think of
Is seeing those two little lines
Three months and you talk to his family
You’re married but they don’t recognize
That three months is too long
You can’t afford the trip but your trip into town is all
They talk about
Three months when they say that
Your dog’s at the end of his rope
But you’re hoping for more
Three months 90 days do you
Buy three packs of his favourite treat or four
Three months since you’ve last seen your friends and you’re craving
a long late night talking
and unless you reach out it’ll be
three more
and its all in my mind
that these last ten pounds all it takes is three months
parts of myself lost I swear they’ll be found
one month sober down I feel ty
and its all in my mind
another three months now
my family they don’t know how
so they say
its all in their minds
A year and three months thinking
Two lines is not the question of
When but how and how much
And its all in my mind
As I stand in the line
The doctor he says
My prescription is good for three months
One’s existence sustains uncertainty,
disruption subsequent to such functionality.
Proceeding reality as my own assessment,
despite that it might get unpleasant.
What transpires within this body and mind
obliges the supplement’s empowerment to be one of a kind.
Attempting for a disparate upshot,
its side effects hit like a gunshot.
Normality dismantling this flow is constructing quite a show.
Give credence to this substance which has been fought over,
a void I intend to gradually rely on and rover
Rubbing my palms together.
Too much heat, pills rolling on the counter.
Rolling and toiling.
The pills look bigger than usual.
A glass of water, sloshing, and splattering.
Medication is…
When it’s late and you want to go to bed.
Medication is,
White, green, blue.
Trying to grasp them.
They seem different today.
So do I, maybe that’s good.
It’s been three weeks.
And horrible things haven’t been happening so much.
Like rolling around on the hardwood floor, and holding my head.
Medication is…
White, green, blue, and cold.
Until they are in my burning, shaking hands.
Medication is…
Whatever happens next.
Which is usually sleeping, but still shaking a bit.
Medication is…
Alive as any person can be.
So am I.
When I'm in depressed
I only look to the sun
I'm back to normal.
What you said
Vs1
My hands are shaking
I light another cigarette
My heart is breaking
I wish i could forget
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
Oh oh what you mean to me
Vs2
My eyes are heavy
I pour another drink
My stomach churning
I just don't wanna think
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
Oh oh what you mean to me
Vs3
My head is aching
I pick up the phone
My body shaken
I can't be alone after
Whatyou saidto me
What you did to me
I don't know what it means
I don't know what it means
Bridge
Trading one addiction for five more
I just don't wanna cry
I'm falling down to the floor
That's when i decide
I don't want to die
Vs4
Self medication
No it will not be the cure
Heart palpitations
I just have to endure
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
How could you just leave
How could you just leave
A money pit for the poor- because doctors know that everyone needs medicine
Medication! By Sammie 2006
A row of bottles on my shelf
Caused me to analyze myself.
One yellow pill I have to pop
Goes to my heart so it won't stop.
A little white one that I take
Goes to my hands so they won't shake.
The blue ones that I use a lot
Tell me I'm happy when I'm not.
The purple pill goes to my brain
And tells me that I have no pain.
The capsules tell me not to wheeze
Or cough or choke or even sneeze.
The red ones, smallest of them all
Go to my blood so I won't fall.
The orange ones, very big and bright
Prevent my leg cramps in the night.
Such an array of brilliant pills
Helping to cure all kinds of ills.
But what I'd really like to know...
Is what tells each one where to go
free verse
Sheltered in safety's shadows.
Knowing God cares for her chief concern
Soon the golden sunshine will flourish.
She watches tiny minnows, skittering they scurry;
and notes the hawthorn berry’s smell, sweet yet faint.
She hears music from the brook; recalls a tune.
Whisp’ring rest, grace notes echo from limb to limb.
Twixt hearth and home, her heart cannot grasp
Trusting God, what lesson might she learn?
Sheltered in safety's shadows.
Light rises on her passage.
Swiftly, she embarks on journey’s end
fearing not the danger she might face.
Horse and maiden head t'wards town with hoarded stash
filled high with reddish berries and heartfelt thought.
Sweet mother’s heart is hushed, likely by disease.
Will nature ordain what wise daughter has found
Death as yet she cannot comprehend
asking God's guidance for the trip.
Light rises on her passage.
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