Poetry
The poetry on this page is written by service users and people who have experience of mental & emotional health issues. ____________________________________________In a box again
In a box again today, trapped in my thoughts
Tired of trying
Pains, where have all the happy thoughts gone? Don’t see them
Reigning in the tears, tears that burn the face off
Strange and soak the skin
To sleep, oh to sleep, dreams so twisted
Clouds full of sorrow
No help to be got, no sleep for days
Only glimpses of light, sleeping through my tired eyes
Hope nobody notices me today
By Vicky McWilliams
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In a box with labels, labels of their choice, or notTearing them off one by one
Some so stuck they rip the skin off
The blood and labelled inheritence
To break the chains, the chains that tighten
With every new relationship and every child born to the slavery of labels
And the races popping up to check us out of their boxes
By Vicky McWilliams
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I was weary and broken
Tired and worriedTorn and beaten down
Not able to hold my head up
No hope, no money, no job, no dreams of the future, no holiday
Feelings of isolation, blue, exclusion
No responsibilities for my life
I still love and care for others
But not myself today
By Vicky McWilliams
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The flicker,
A flame.
With red to show.
While darkness creeps,
Onwards,
The orange does glow.
As rust,
Bites metal.
Stone melts,
Slowly…
Against the flow.
Cold blue waters.
Into the distance,
There is the trace.
Of a shadow,
Maybe it is.
For all the while,
These thoughts,
Do drift.
For my mind,
To question.
But never,
Will I,
Truly know.
So I try,
To imagine,
A line.
Faint and fine,
Yet I am sure,
It will not capture.
Nor its symmetry,
Will define.
For such,
Are these things.
Which are there,
To intertwine.
When they are,
As ever,
Touched by time.
By Mattrix B poems
________________________________________________________ UNTIL Thin, very thin,Lonely, very lonely,Sad, very sad,
Clever, very clever, but almost mad
Love, love, long to love
Lost the drive, cos they’ve b’n no good
Bills, bills, but without the frills
Done it by my self
Damn, where I was I have a future of wealth
A wealth of a future
Beauty unforeseen
Not for them to judge
What remains untouched?
Remains supreme
Relinquish self doubt and let’s see
What there really might be to be to be seen?
By Jade Rivers
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There, there. Been and gone, spent and had For a game of soldiers u ain’t done too badThe pain you hold is not what they seeYet, lipstick hides many a bad dream
Nightmares, daydreams, all the same
You can’t escape the loop cos the grain’s the same
Follow the grain and feel the same,
Change the wood and you’ll feel good!
Feeling good is unfamiliar,
Some time without ain’t gonna kill ya
To die is quick and it’s affective,
How much do you want your own objective.
You have bit it and chewed it and spat it out,
Cos only the truth comes out your mouth
Minutes have gone and seconds have past
Yet you comfort those where reality’s lapsed
You observe their absence of what is real
Yet your time for now, yourself does steal.
By Jade Rivers
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Second on the Left. The road to nowhere must have an end Where ever that is, it will be your neck that bends Associates acquaintances friends and the like Change ‘em like your shoes After all it’s only you that keeps those in y’ life When you walk down the road and if you walk far enough, You’ll come to a junction, The choice is yours but that’s tough. Go straight ahead or you could choose left or the right, But when it gets dark watch the bugs don’t bite! Where ever you are even if you’re back to square one You have done it before so dust yourself down, Get up and move on. By Jade Rivers ____________________________________________________________________ ‘Twas once that I …………. Where are you now that doesn’t echo times before? But your hearing is much clearer this time Don’t wanna listen to that any more! Choice words choice music and choice all around Walking on platinum coated eggshells With this new footing you now have found Your hear a tinkle in the distance of those once thunderous fears But to get where you are now To be honest, it has taken years an years! All those minutes that’s been spent and those moments that’s spun around To hear the purr of contentment is a well sought after sound Saints or sinners, We’re all beginners, cos what goes around comes around. By Jade Rivers ________________________________________________________________________
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By Mattrix B poems
By Mattrix B poems
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By MCB poems
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A New Day
As morning breaks, I hide my eyes but daylight wakes me. I say nothing more, Just wonder where fate will take me. Time passes by, Will the world slowly change me? I can’t stay the same, Life will have to shape me. Feeling sorrow, Pain is here to teach me. By Mattrix B poems ____________________________________________Nightmare Scenario
Don’t turn out the light Nothing is what it seems, Who will hear my screams? They are not in the room, But in my dreams. So save me from my plight, Leave that light shinning bright, Because if you don’t they might just bite. Please don’t turn out the light. By Mattrix B poems __________________________________________________Past Expressions
In every face, In every line. There was a place, There was a time. In every smile, In every frown. There was an up, There was a down. In every laugh, In every tear. There was a joke, There was a fear. Emotions etched, Your face shows your life somehow.By Mattrix B poems
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One’s Self
It’s only me, it’s only me. Yes, it’s only me! After the arguments and nightmares, At least I think it is? It’s only me, it’s only me and solitaries decree I have nothing I wish to feign A hollowness I can’t second guess, the main part of my pain? To acknowledge that I may be pining for what I once felt as being sane? A culture less of social etiquette, yet I still feel I am to blame. May I bid you good day, cross my fingers and wish you well When may I be released from this dull pulsed, hibernating hell? Until I reach my solace, My quest will only resonate, prey do tell, prey do tell? When may I be released from this hibernating hell? I am yet to greet those who, in truth, are filled with fury, Beneath the masqueraded of a mid shead skin, say they understand, but are too marinated in the media, all the frills an all the glitz So absorbed are they they’re to befallen before they will admit That they actually have been caught In the glitch you now find yourself in! Do as you’re bid, an abide by the voices I am but merely one of those lingering, annoying voices, That mundane narrative what only states the obvious The obvious being, that indeed we all have choices At least inhale a sip from a cloud on a drift None of this is fake Nor are the choices what we make! The skeletal truth in the expression of; What a difference a day makes, We’re all shown opportunity, but what price do we want to pay? And yes I know you know I only speak the truth! So all you can do, is get out there an compete You owe it to yourself, if only that, at least. Encouragement is owed to those, Those who are special They don’t need opinion of others to decipher what is real They don’t need confirmation, cos what they already know is such a steal. All that is required is the belief and thirst to thrive Faith in ones self and the power to feel alive. By Jade Rivers _____________________________________________________Last one
You know you are here now, So where d’ya’ really wanna be? Let me tell y’ what it is, Don’t you dare leave here without me? Here you are now, but why should they listen? The tone of your you’re voice …Uh! Drop the tone keep the glare, cos we’ve all been there, Save the acoustics cos there’s no one real to listen Absence of truth, maybe that’s what it takes to make a voice glisten? What are words without truth’s? A symbol of what? An embroidered emblem of what’s good to get got, Too proud to remember, Or a vengeful emblem of what’s been and now’s lost? Never ends the dream when we could’ve been two broken souls, Who encountered each other once torn from our moulds, I think we could’ve made a good job of broken pair of moulds. A pair o’ moulds that’d never b’n fixed In your own way you thought you had it licked! But here comes the crunch! The adrenalin of truth without no brief to be your face, All I wanted was hugs , but all you longed for was the chase You got got what you cried for, The longing for the prisons embrace You only want what you cry to avoid, With your reckless charm, You were amused by those who got annoid! My love was never good enough. You think you’re hard, But when you can’t feel love, That’s when it’s tough. After all those chuckles were you better off? We no longer have us, An expensive scoff! Now you don’t like that thought, cos like me you are proud! But we should’nt keep putting our foot in our big mouth. Well let me get this off my chest, You are in the top ten, but you were’nt the best! Now hear it from me you got your whole life to live! Please give it a chance for however long that is! You’re the lord of your own dance and of your life, please make the most.By Jade Rivers
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