Sorry Mental Illness Poems

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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They struggle to know how I feel,
yet each question they ask only makes it more real.

And they search for a way to get in.
Hell, the...

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You just could not understand why,
there was no one there that could hear you cry,
you didn’t know I could feel each tear that burned you.

You...

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Rants do not make great songs
Rosanne Barr I am sorry to say
not so great in a thong
when you sell no tickets
you have no show

Unless you...

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The doctor had a worried face.

He asked me how I let it get this bad, and how I could be so stupid.

I really can’t remember…

I...

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I’m sorry,
That I sound like I’ve been put to mute.

I’m sorry,
That I was speaking first.

I’m sorry,
That I added to the conservation 
only to be left...

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Fools'day 
When you mistakenly
                         take 
                         Medicines
                         Made 
                            for 
                             a 
                           Mad
                           Man 
                              or
                           Woman 
     
You will seem As 
  ...

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I’m in a dream.

It’s a bit cliche, but it works for me. 

In this dream, I can practice telling the truth. 

I can tell them...

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We have all noticed that things are getting bad again,
I know things will get better, but I don't know when.

While clutching at my arm
As my...

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Apologising all the time is often an after-effect of trauma; a self-preservation technique survivors may think they still need to utilise in order to protect...

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I spent a little too much time alone and I got stuck inside my head.

The crazy got a little too loud and I just wanted...

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She woke up each day
Forcing a smile, forcing to get up and go on
Forcing herself to get ready like nothing was truly broken inside.
But truly...

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Here in the waiting room it is silent. 

I start talking with my mom. 

She pretends she can understand. 

The voices do not get tired....

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My mind feels shattered thoughts everywhere.

Can't think can't focus my attention anywhere.

One project, two projects, so much to do.

Three projects, four. I always seem to...

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Forgive me
for all the apologies I didn't write,
for all the times
I didn't get it right,
for all the times
all I did was lie,
and for every time...

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