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 Oct 2015 S Smoothie
Helen
do you know what it's like to be the only sane person to live inside insanity? To know that your world is not tricked out by delusions or illusions of normality? do you know what it's like to awake to cries in the night, waking with a heart pounding, dry throat, wretched hope knowing that your throat is unaffected but you lie next to the displaced, affected in their nightmare and all you have is two arms to hold them tight and one heartbeat to place beneath their ear giving them a semblance of life? do you know what it's like to know reality and wanting to wish someone normal only to realise that your normal could be more damaging to a mind that broke at the apex of their life? those of us who think we are sane as we hold the hand of those that have been proven into insanity are more broken, as we look into the mirror suspended above the vanity that leaks with a faulty faucet, we picture ourselves as saviours, but let's face it, we're as faulty as the hand we hold, as the tears we dry, as the tormented screams we hear as they cry except, we are the Sane, the undiagnosed saviours of the souls that we love, we just find it easier to hide our pain
long term carer of a PTSD Anxiety Depressive who is my heart and soul... Some days I wonder which of us is truly Insane
 Oct 2015 S Smoothie
mk
he can't tell
that she's been crying
while she promises him
she's "fine"
he can't tell
that she's slowly dying
when she tells him
"everything's alright"

you'll lose her
she's fading
this won't last long
you'll be left
empty handed
wondering
where you went wrong
by that time
it'll be
too late
she'll be
*gone.
so cliché i'm gagging
 Oct 2015 S Smoothie
Kimberly S
They
 Oct 2015 S Smoothie
Kimberly S
1 AM
Flashing lights
Blurriness
Darkness
They're here
Unambiguously punctual
They hum solemn melodies &
Whisper deceitful yet stimulating
Thoughts engraved forevermore in
This unpretentious mind of mine
How are you?* is asked solely for the purpose of politeness
We lie through our teeth when we say, I'm happy for you!
or
you look good
I'd rather you tell me to ******* than to see it in your eyes while you smile
While you smile that generic grin used on your parents and strangers
That generic laugh and those phrases you keep repeating.
Have I become one of your strangers?
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