#mentalheatlh
Held my breath, took the plunge,
took the flight to the other side of the world.
Disassembled everything.
Started over again.
Still, sadness is the shadow over my shoulder
and Marlboro my one true friend.
The fan fills noise in the corner,
in the space where voices had been.
Still covered in lacerations
from all those who reached out for me.
Keeping busy in the day,
buy and sell in the backwater streets;
if solitude breeds clarity,
then loneliness breeds insanity
and both arrive so rushed and so brief.
No need to lock the door
for no one will ever come.
If I should die, it would take a while
until someone sounds the drum.
I flew so many miles
and still, my sadness has won.
Nov 12, 2016
Nov 12, 2016 at 1:14 PM UTC
I tried to touch the stars last night
So i took a chair and turned off the light
I reached higher than I ever tried
I saw them already, so beautiful, I even cried
But I lost balance and the chair fell
The light went on, and I was back in my cell
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM UTC
Every time these four walls seem to be closing in
You swing through them to give me oxygen
Every time these four walls seem to be crashing in
You hold them up to give me oxygen
Every time these thoughts get darker
You light a candle
Every time these thoughts get harder
You help me handle
Every time I need you
You are there for me
Every time I call for you
You come to hold me
So this is my ‘thank you’
For everything you do
Even when I am taking it to far
You are always there to stitch my scar.
Jun 3, 2019
Jun 3, 2019 at 7:49 PM UTC
I use to see home like a prison
A place that chained down my soul
Times have changed, I have progressed
Here, I realized I have the most control
I use to see my room as a place
Where I was trapped within 4 walls
But now it is a sanctuary, a refuge
A place where I'm almost free from it all
I wanted to get to know the world and its people
And I still haven't seen it all
Though now I see my home as somewhere
A place I can heal every time I fall
Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 at 1:04 PM UTC