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Poem Details
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| Title: | My Mental Home |
| Author: | Jim |
| Date Submitted: | 9/19/2009 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
The circadian rhythm of my being Inner clock of routine Disrupted by mental storms of anxiety and depression Carrying on under apprehension My befuddled misfortune One bad egg from the basket of womanhood How many colors do words come in? Like people similar only to a fool The palette of creation infinitely appearing I''m the shadow standing under the street light Incarcerated by mental infirmities My brain analogous to a sanitarium for the tormented Showing a heavy ranking of mental informality My infirmities cause me a monthly stipend Lacking fortitude for physical labor But doing it just the same I survive Tried only in an informal duplicity The pendulum of opposite scales Never seeing the noonday sun without night moon In correlation with the solar cycle What is hidden is always there It''s within Insanity remorse joy In large supply Nada!... |