A poem — The biggest mistake I ever made was not saying goodbye. If I had left when I first tried you wouldn’t be so miserable. If I had gone the second or third time I tried maybe you wouldn’t hate me so. One less burden, much less shame, you would’ve experienced happy freedom…

A poem — Every night I fervently pray for relief from my pain. Yet every morning I awake to new obstacles that life throws with perfect aim to stop me abruptly from learning the art of Healing. Is there a greater being than me rolling the dice of my life, dealing the cards I’m supposed…

A poem — My internal struggle strangles me a little more each day, pieces of my heart embrittling into fragments, into sand, into dust, until ultimately the passing of time disintegrates it entirely. The passage of time is continuously linear, steadily advancing toward the end and the beginning, toward the beginning and the end, in the never-ending cycle…

A poem — My mind’s a swirling vortex, thoughts jumbled and entwined, engulfed by the darkness pervading the very depths of my soul. Lethargy consumes me along with her sister, Apathy, both controlled by their mother, Depression. The black void inside me consumes more of me each day until such time it will swallow me whole…

A poem — Once you loved me saying I’d never know how much. But now you reject me, remembering only my being too harsh. Heartbroken and awash in tears of the mother I love who no longer wants me near. You lied and you kept secrets you went out of your way to exclude me. All the while welcoming the daughter you actually love…

When asked, I was told I’ll receive it either this Sunday or the next, at the end of the month! — I’m not getting any food from the food bank this month. My monthly order was delivered to the wrong address but they only have volunteer drivers on Sundays and when I called, I was told I’ll get my order either this coming Sunday, March 26 or on April 2. The…

A poem — You think that I’m a monster, attacking your every move. But you would be regretful if you only understood. The bruises I endured and the insults I came to trust, I suffered greatly to save you, but you swept me away like dust. A day so beautiful never shared between us. The…

A poem — I don’t belong in with this kin Causing chaos all the time. Unwanted, unloved, unimportant, I’m trapped within myself with no way of escape. I long for freedom from my captors, to stop from being their puppet any longer. I wonder how it feels to have free will, abolished for me many moons passed. Who am I? What am…

A poem — Recurring cycles of pain come in waves like those of the daily tides. The yearly passing of seasons differentiate the progression of my insanity’s moods. Drugs are my straightjacket, restraining the pain of existing in the black void, threatening to pull me under to envelop me in its dark caress. How do I endure being swallowed by the darkness…