Becoming acutely aware of all that I took for granted
Someone, somewhere
Can understand me
I’ll never meet them
Not be loved like they could love me
I’ve so much to learn
About finding the right people to love
God, but life is loneliness
Despite all friendships made
Inspite of grinning faces and passing stages
‘Parties’ with no purpose in truth
Loneliness of the soul well
It’s an artistic condition some
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Suffer from it more than others
Like allergies, a more unique brain
Someone, somewhere
Has a brain a little more like mine
I’ll never meet them, but sometimes
Knowing that they exist, helps me
Get through the day, writing
Like an unabridged journal from me to you
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It’s overpowering and horrible to be self-conscious
Making up narrative and plots, inventing them
All the time, like spirit-chatter
Why so festive, why so gloomy
Because my inner voice is powerful.
Author’s Note:
This is a tribute to all human beings who suffer from the condition known as “poet’s brain”, please share it on facebook, twitter and other social media. There is some evidence that writers, artists and especially poets have more challenges regulating their emotions, lifestyle, anxiety and subsequent consequences of struggles with mental illness sometimes leading to breakdowns, and even to premature deaths by suicide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poets_who_committed_suicide
http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous_poets/suicidal_poets.aspx
Featured Artist:
I am really becoming drawn to your work. Very thought provoking and emotional
I appreciate that Dray, I’m sometimes quite prolific so you’d definitely have some reading material on a sunday 🙂
Keep it coming. I have moments of depression, although not devastatingly awful. I have found writing helps tremendously and is great therapy.
To feel deeply is necessary for poetry… hope you have found means of regulating them when needs be. Namaste. 🙂
Thanks Florence, thankfully with my simplicity, sense of spirituality and love of writing I don’t suffer much at all since my early 20s 🙂
Writing is indeed therapeutic… if we allow it to be. 🙂
Writing about positive topics does help! Some writers when they are young prefer to magnify the drama 😛
Drama, what drama?! 🙂
yeah I know eh! I don’t even remember that well…..all I feel is peace now.
May peace continues… 🙂
You wear so many hats, but you seem at peace as well!
Most of the time, I am. 🙂
Have a wonderful week Florance, I can only imagine the inner and outer richness of your life 🙂
Thank you, and same to you. 🙂