these poems are a compilation of thoughts and feelings on specific subjects that we have all either experienced personally or through the lives of others. i hope you enjoy them, comments are most welcome.
Alzheimer’s
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It’s all the things you know
that you don’t know your know anymore,
forever forgotten moments
lost in the mind.
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Knowledge has abandoned you,
intricacies of life’s events
gone AWOL,
leaving you in limbo.
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They’re on the end of your tongue
but still you can’t express them,
never recalling times past,
images trapped within the cobwebs of your mind.
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You feel disheartened,
struggling to recollect yesterday,
periods of blankness
overcast the soul.
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I can see you struggling,
trying to kick start your brain,
battling the illness,
fighting with your memory.
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Anorexia
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At 13 the problems began,
caught by the bug
of habitual starvation.
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What started as an ideal,
now was an addiction,
a state of mind hard to break
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She was dying to be thin
And willing to do anything
To get what she wanted.
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Whether through society,
environment or mental anguish,
no one truly knows.
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But she was just short of 6 foot,
just over 4 stone
and now only 15.
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She’d achieved her goal,
but the mirror continued to lie to her
and she believed in its reflexion.
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She’s now lies in a hospital bed,
suffering immensely
and needing to be fed by force.
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Even so the condition has gone too far,
no longer is she dying to be thin,
she’s just dying.
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She is so light there’s was no imprint
in the bed or the pillow,
not a crease in the sheet.
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The only mark that will be left
Is in her friends and families lives,
who have watched her fade to nothing.
Voices
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Those real but unreal voices that haunt us,
they tap into our skulls
sending us mixed messages,
trying to destroy our souls.
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When we look in the mirror
they tell us,
you’re too fat,
you’re too thin.
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We place faith in friends
Who have earnt our trust,
Sharing with them our darkest secrets,
Then they begin to question our judgment.
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On the multiple choice exam
we know the answers c,
but they tell us otherwise,
leading us to doubt.
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Our partners say they love us,
but they won’t let us believe them,
destroying all our hope,
belittling all we are and have.
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We know we shouldn’t pay attention
and we don’t really want to,
but they’re always there,
taunting us to listen.