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 Nov 2024 BipolarBear
Charly
Repair
 Nov 2024 BipolarBear
Charly
It's      always easi
                                er        to
break  a nd                    
                  d       e             st roy
th a n    to            FIX
                     what's broken
 Nov 2024 BipolarBear
badwords
We tried to part ways
Neither a place to go
The victims of our frays
Bound in familiar woe

The hurt we each seek
Together, alone
The acid we speak
This caustic home

A prison, a cell
The confines of hate
A resulting hell
To escape a fate

They claw my heels
My attempts to escape
They broker deals
I must abdicate
This was written as an allegory for trying to overcome heartache, trauma, depression and suffering et al while still having to wake up to it every day.

Living with mental illness is like living with a partner you want to leave but, the situation does not allow it. I attempt to convey that allegory in 'Living With the Ex'. The idea came from my immediate experience of being in a situation where I was effectively stuck with a partner I no longer wanted to live with while dealing with managing my own depression and how being forced to live with someone I didn't want to affected my own mental health
 Nov 2024 BipolarBear
badwords
Dig!
 Nov 2024 BipolarBear
badwords
It crawls
It stalls
It falls

Truth, buried deep
Lucid, asleep
Answers to keep
A journey, steep

Reverse time
Unwound rhyme
Lies to dine
Answers to find

It's there, everything you seek
These obfuscations reek
Behind the expressions of the meek
A spectacle, disillusion the weak

Dig
Dig
Dig

It's there, just waiting
Truth, casually abating
Under a pile of consecrating
The explanation not stating

So close
So lost

Go deeper!
I can't say more
If there were a place being policed and monitored, one would need to be subversive in how they communicate...
You have my heart in chains
After all these years
The mercy of your affection
Hand that wipes my tears

You're mesmerizing beyond measure
Smile leaves me paralyzed
The sole word you have to utter is "Come!"
Legs move to my surprise

I obey each wish and command
Your approval I seek
All you need done to hear me talk
Simply call out to me "Speak"

You are not aware of power
Love feels like a restraint
Pulled me along by your heels
Never guided me straight

I am obedient pet
One that knows how to sit
I am too happy to lie down where I'm told
When you tell me to "Stop!" I quit

The fact is I keep heart locked up
In pound waiting for you to change
After all this time
Remains in your ribcage
Written 3-8-19
You and the sun are both gone.
The fire crackles.
I long for your warmth instead.
8/27/24
The sky is dripping.
It’s gray sadness mirrors mine.
We are both crying.
11/8/24 My attempt at haiku.
Inhale, feel the sadness.
Exhale, let go of the sadness.

Inhale, feel the pain of not being able to help someone you love.
Exhale, let go of the pain.

Inhale, feel the confusion of not knowing the right thing to do.
Exhale, let go of the confusion.

Inhale, feel the crushing fear of rejection and abandonment.
Exhale, let go of the fear.

Inhale, feeling all the things.
Exhale, letting them go.

Nothing left but emptiness.
What do I want now?
To drift into the darkness, floating on your beautiful voice.
Lead me with your words into the quiet, numb darkness.
11-10-24
Feeling
Everything.
Always
Running.
Forever
Unsure.
Life.
11/10/24
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