Family Mental Illness Poems

[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...

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On that July day of confusion and discord,
I entered the women's psychiatric ward.
A place I'd been in before,
receiving a calming shot in my buttocks
on the...

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Hello I'm agent Brown I am not in  a good place

Hi agent Brown it's okay I'm here for you 

it's the dark place again...

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Agony and insanity are my own family.
Hence why I am so often on edge with reality.
There is no actual cure for this disease, so please...

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delusions, illusions,
these random contusions,
idolic notions of
noiseless commotions,
keeps me in motion,
whirling with the gravity
I'm on my knees,
praying what you're saying
I still believe
and if its true
what i...

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By Chad Carlson

Today I looked at my life in rewind
Found the good in mostly bad times
Smiled a lot and even laughed a little
Until I got...

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Pain settles in quite instantly your senses 
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic 
twilight phase the injury...

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Waiting; waiting; waiting…
in the dark of night.
Cotton in my pocket,
soon I’ll be alright.
Twisting in my fingers,
I don’t know what to do,
I think I best buy...

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When all things have been shattered abroad
How can puzzles come together like falling stars
How far can you look for the hidden piece
Did someone steal or...

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Oh Man, where am I?
What caused this pain and why?
I desperately cannot live this insane life.
For the pain of memories brings in strife.

I grab my...

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Oh brother, I’d say you’ve lost your way again
But the truth is, you’ve never been found 
You see things not as they are
If only you...

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When I was crazy,

Everyone was bubbles.

And they never popped.

And they never shrunk to nothingness.

Everything was about to repair itself naturally.

When I was crazy,

I would gather...

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				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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Aliens are real.

Everyone around me is sprouting antennae.

They have alien eyes.

It makes me laugh.

They are holding back their teeth.

They will all transform soon.

But my transformation...

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Wake up
My father says in the late afternoon 
And unfortunately, I do
I do the thing i’ve been hating for so long

Wake up
My mother says, late...

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