Photo by KawaiiArt1980 on Pexels.com Who is this perfect person you want to know?This flawlessFaultlessVision of brillianceThis sparkling example of humanity?It isn’t meI am humanI am fallibleI have weaknessesStrengthsAnd everything in betweenI love deeplyI forget things sometimesI daydream when I should be workingOccasionally I leave a tap runningBut I am respectful and considerateI love myContinueContinue reading “Who?”
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All
What is everything to you?Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com This is the anchor poem of the ‘All’ series. AllIs everythingIt is the beginning and the endThe Alpha and the OmegaThe I wishI hopeI wonderAnd I amIf you want everythingYou must be allAnd if you want to be allYou must be everythingYou must not feelContinueContinue reading “All”
You Don’t Know Me
I live my life Never fully revealing who I am But it’s all there inside me The only place I’ve even been allowed To survive If I’ve tried to extend outwards I’ve been battered back A prisoner of their fear And the need to control in order to feel strong They haven’t won though BecauseContinueContinue reading “You Don’t Know Me”
Hope More
I find sunflowers hopeful and upliftingPhoto by lil artsy on Pexels.com When you want to illustrate hope there are so many ways to do it, but for me nature reminds us that we can come back from a winter of the soul. Year after year, decade after decade, it does what it does, and nothingContinueContinue reading “Hope More”
Breakdown
In hiding within No one knows how anyone else feels, nor can one person explain how another will react to the same situation. As such, this is a very personal account of how it felt to be me, in a way that I found more comfortable at the time, trying to bring a little lightContinueContinue reading “Breakdown”
How to Freak Out a Counsellor
Sometimes you just have to define yourself Many years ago I was sent to a counsellor by my GP as he was nearly as worried about my state of mind as I was. The guy turned out to be a Community Psychiatric Nurse, which made me even more worried as it sounded rather more dramatic,ContinueContinue reading “How to Freak Out a Counsellor”
It is My Life
How important is spirituality in your life? Nature is spiritual Spirituality saved my sanity if not my life. Had I not had a mentor who saw the world in a different way I would never have found the path to recovery and the way to my true self. I wasn’t raised in an emotionally healthyContinueContinue reading “It is My Life”
Who Am I?
Too tempting not to use the book cover to illustrate this poem about the life-long search for self, that is so much fun. Far from age taking things away from you, it gives you so much more. You feel free to be who you are, do as you wish (taking others into consideration of course,ContinueContinue reading “Who Am I?”
It’s a Punch
Acknowledging that men go through this tooPhoto by NEOSiAM 2021 on Pexels.com You think of it as words But it’s a punch A blow to the gut A wound to the psyche A thrust to the heart Have confidence you say I did before all the punches You wouldn’t expect someone To pole vault withContinueContinue reading “It’s a Punch”
Wrinkles
Photo by Nashua Volquez-Young on Pexels.com These fingers have bent a million times And this face has creased into thousands of expressions The lines around my eyes arose from Crying at sadness Laughing with joy Wincing at the unkindness of the world And squinting through headaches and bright sunshine This saggy chin has dipped downContinueContinue reading “Wrinkles”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 