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Poem Details
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| Title: | Sonnet: "A Bipolar Realization" |
| Author: | Ngoc Nguyen |
| Date Submitted: | 3/29/2018 |
| Email: | ngoc.m.nguyen@cox.net |
| Poem: |
If I skip sleep or refuse to take my meds against my doctor's advice, I hear radio-like sounds at night in my ear; the sounds unhinge me as no one's nearby when I'm bipolar and I fail to comply with doctors' orders. It's common, I fear-- that I'm committed two to three times a year; it puts my whole life on total standby! Life with my disorder is difficult; but it also makes life a real challenge, a test to beat and surmount--to exult in when I face it and no longer cringe from my disease as some unjust result of fate that grimly has me on the fringe.... |