"What's wrong with me?", I sighed.
"Gee, I don't know", I replied.
"Wait, Dave, I think I've got it -
our personality is split!"
"That's the dumbest thing I've heard, of course."
"Pipe down and consider the source."
Her name is Weather, and she's such a tease-
with come-and-go split personalities.
April 22, 2022
Contest: Your Preference
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Normally I am sober
Love to socialize
Never lose composure
Need no disguise
I am an IT engineer
I am a good husband
Clara my wife dear
Earns several thousand
We are a happy family
Except the deadly alter
As they say the insanity
Needs a strong halter
Whenever you humiliate me
The rebel will come up
Will bring out invariably
The beast in my soul-hub
And when the beast is out
To do something horrible
Irrational bloods shout
I am criminally terrible
But the normal I has no memory
Of the monster in me
Nor the alter is aware
Of the others who accompany
This dissociation is disastrous
Psychiatry has no remedy
Psychotherapy is advantageous
For the disturbed chemistry
The broken home of my childhood
Haunts me in my dream
Both the identities in the darkness
Are in full-throated scream
Doctors give me medicines
For anxiety and depression
Sending me in reticence
To tranquilize the elephant
I don’t know how long I will stay
With this miserable destiny
I am afraid one clouded day
I'll kill both of me
___________________________
May 22, 2016
For: Split Personalities – Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Davey
I have a split personality.
There is no rationality.
At work I am all focus.
At play I am hocus pocus.
The mad me wants to dance.
The sane me says "Not a chance."
The imp inside cannot decide
to behave or to go wild.
It was Shakespeare who said
we put on a face to meet
the faces that we meet.
In other words,we cheat.
I have a split personality.
It's to do with conformity.
Poeterysoup let's me out of my box.
Imagination run riot. Let's rock!!
16/05/2016
Most times she wakes with radiant, full smile
and eyes of blue that sparkle neath the sun.
To be around her lifts our spirits while
her upbeat nature spreads to everyone.
For days, this personality can last,
and spending time with her brings happy cheers.
But then one morning she can turn so fast
and wakes up sad and dark with flowing tears.
Those days create glum weariness with fears
her sunny smile, now gone, brings us malaise.
We now must deal with bouts of falling tears
and modify our life through stormy days.
Her name is 'Weather' and she's such a tease-
with come-and-go split personalities.
May 14, 2016
~5th Place~
Contest: Split Personalities
Sponsor: Brian Davey
Judged: 05/22/2016
Two sides of one coin,
Split between two.
Brought to the light,
Drowning in darkness.
Hope to be whole,
Yet reality stays.
The personality is two,
The brain is one.
They fight to be there,
To be in control.
They seek the end,
For the other to be gone.
They cannot part,
No matter their wish.
The third brings them together,
Holding them in their chains.
They eat away at one,
Destroy all they see.
They can't be controlled,
No, not your split personality.
Cant seem to establish a grip
Business management slip
Psychology debased
No thought holds inspiring fate
All nimble thumb blame games poisoining
This suggestible day
Then amid smoke stacks and foggy mirrors
The coil of regret burns away
Time is slipping
Where has family been all these years
What have i been doing in this choatic mess
Where might it lead
Each suggestible day burning, bleeding
What to do with anger and hate
This frozen identification leaving
Where to go
I already know
We are one and one are we, know one knows any differently. We walk, talk, and act as one,I'm myself but your a different someone.
The day we split was strange indeed, I was looking at you looking at me.
I saw all that you did and heard all that was said.
Never looking back unless you needed me to right the wrongs.
We walked the thin line and had a good time, so we thought.
We were two different people but still as one.
Your lies and crimes became mine, you started to walk a thinner line.
You played your games a little to long and hurt the people we cared about.
I tried to pull you back with me, but it only made it worse for us.
With a little help I'm back again the way it should be, I do see how having you is good for me. You keep me happy and feeling free.
I need to keep both feet planted on the ground, but I will carry you with me incase I truly need to be free.
God-given Package, I'm weak,
Strong mentally, but matters physique,
Endure insult, to haughty meek,
Urchin servility, the reluctant beak!
Fury pressurized, wrath submerged,
Luck withdrawing, ego gulped,
Jealousy fostered, though sanity burped,
Bearing, enduring, a character developed!
A violent being develops indside,
Emerging obscene, nothing to abide,
The silent sacrifices, virulent when unified,
The two beings characteristically colide!
The meek ogre, that's an identity,
The vulnerable resistance, that is tenacity,
Antagonistic personalities, that is duality,
Accepting presence, a reticent alacrity!
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