Fragile Friend
Fragile Friend by Marie E. Kelly from the Mad in Ireland Poetry Collection
Breakdown Benefits
In their urgency to cure my psychoses
anti depressants, SSRIs are prescribed
with lithium to settle moods and
as a last measure twelve sessions
of ECT under anaesthetic.
Noone...
It’s okay not to be okay…
But what if your 'mental illness' is of the destructive type.
The type that demands to be seen as it rips through all that squeezes...
Over Encumbered
Weighed down and carrying too much.
Leaning too heavy on this damn crutch.
Words flow like rivers but lead to no action.
Talking about plans that gain...
In Trying Times
With foundations rocky
The need to retreat grows stronger.
As uncertainty rips through a barely grown over path
Solitude beckons, company no longer
Wanted as new roots dislodge...