Defeat is not Surrender
Defeat is not surrender, nor is darkness light. Though pain may overwhelm us it cannot stop our bright. Defeat is not surrender, nor is the battle lost. Defeat is not surrender, though we have paid great cost. For in our hearts a forest...
Poem: Finally Sleeping
CW: Suicidal Imagery ---------------------------------------- I never knew what rest meant. I never know I was tired. I never knew past exhaustion, and through anxiety, so wired. I never knew what rest meant. I never knew without hope. I...
Poem: Being Afraid
Being afraid, all the time, Being afraid, forever, Being afraid, in your mind, and labelled "disturbed" forever. Being unseen, and being afraid, and being forever lost, We need each other; we need ourselves to cope with darkest...
Poem: Being Seen
Not being seen, by others. Not being seen, alone. Not being seen, forever. Not being seen, alone. Not being seen, I worry. Not being seen, I tear. Not being seen, forever. Not being seen, I bear. Not being seen, it kills me. Not being...
Poem: Lifemates
Death and I are companions rowing e're forward with sticks; Death and I are companions from the my smile to his shining white lips. From my legs, chilled to bone, soaked in cavernous lake, to my arms that are weary and sore, We row opposite...
Poem: Madness
Madness is wonderful and madness is kind; Madness is terrible, and madness is mine. Hubris or madness or lunatic high I have to stretch my wings; Madness will tell me that I can fly and that I'll be caught by these things. Madness is...
Poem: Dakota
My little spark of madness, My little spark of joy, My little-bigger dragon, who knows not yet the sky. My little spark of madness, Tornado sweeping wings, She takes aloft and smiles down and then begins to sing. Her voice may not be...
Poem: Horses
Padding about inside their locks their eyes seem awfully strange, alien faces with alien eyes and no-one knows their names. Some of their heritages goes so far back. Did they fight? Did they plow? Did they flee? One never knows in those...
Poem: My Art
My gift is needed here. It waits in the darkness where no one can hear. It holds a candle, always. It loves and it lives and it laughs. It hides, always. It lives without restraint. It cries, crying for all those who cannot. It lies, telling...
Poem: Home
I never expected to find home in a psych ward, Home in a very very unknown place, Home in ev'ry heartbeat, ev'ry shadow, Home in ev'ry crying, sobbing face, Home, for every tear that I will shed here, Home, for each and every drop I would, ...
Poem: For My Mom
CW for suicidal imagery. -------------------------------------------------- I know people crying, weeping. I know people, dying, same. I know people with my faces. I know people with my names. Should I weep for silence loudly, Should I cry...
Poem: Just Now
This moment is precious. This moment is peace. This moment is hope, and kindness, and light. This moment is sadness. This moment is despair and darkness, yet life. This moment is kindness. This moment is the march of love amongst the...