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Voices (In My Head)

Voices.

 

Turmoil inside an ageing mind

Voices screaming shouting arguing.

Tell me what I should think and do.

Showing me everything except the truth

Constantly bringing up my past

Memories of the bad are the only things that seem to last.

Please ask the voices to quieten down.

Please ask the voices to just leave me alone.

 

Discussing everything I ever did wrong.

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4 in the Morning

4 in the Morning.

 

Hey what's wrong I have a funny feeling.

It's four in the morning and the voices are not talking.

I am a little confused because I am feeling OK.

Maybe, just maybe I might have a good day.

Yet I am sure when the sun comes up that feeling will fade away.

And today will be just the same as yesterday.

 

Nataiella (2024).

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Bottom of the Sea

Bottom Of the Sea.

 

I am going down, way, way down to my final resting place where I will never be found.

There are no more cheeky naughty smiles on the face of this clown, if I have planned it right it should look like I have accidentally drowned.

The world I live in is no longer a safe place for me to be, I'm going to swim with the fish is in the Big Blue Ocean Sea.

I have run al...

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Taylor Swifts Angels.

Taylor Swifts Angels.

 

I am still struggling to understand the horrific news of yesterday, I’m finding it difficult to find the right words to say.

A group of young children gathered to dance the day away, swifties dancing and having fun on the first day of their school holidays.

Innocent children with not a care in the world, little did they know of the horror that was about to unfol...

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Chains.

CHAINS

Nothing in life comes easy to me

It’s a struggle to try and break free

From the chains that hold me tight

And further enhance my plight.

Everything I do just holds me down

I can’t have a smile, only a frown

To decide just like that

Would just bring me even more crap

I think carefully before I do wrong

But I am just singing the same old song

I don’t understan...

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3am stroll

3am Stroll.

 

It's 3:00 in the morning and I'm slowly hobbling down the deserted streets, trying to get some exercise the doctor says I really need.

I go at this time because I feel very vulnerable, I feel this is the safest time for me, also I have developed a strong intolerance for other people and become very awkward socially.

There is the smell of ice cream in the air and quite a s...

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going blind

i know you’re disappointed in me

we always scream for hours and fight

until i decide to go out on a walk by the big oak tree

even though i can barely see the sidewalk at night

 

im starting to think that i can’t see in general anymore

i look in the mirror and see someone new

it’s like i’ve never seen her before

i wonder if you feel that way about me too

 

my therapist...

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Escalate

Is there something to explain?

Is there someone left to blame?

Do you know why you are here?

Would you rather disappear?

 

As there's so many young people out there

Looking for the same thing

And there's so many young people out there

Trying to play the blame game

 

So listen up young people

Tell me what it is inside

Trying to cut away your heart strings

and ...

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HONOUR MY CHOICE

So I've thought out this letter for so long as the times have changed my words have too everything changes but my mind this windowless prison permanent guard oh shadowed screw

Understand ..This was carefully planned 

 

I  did consider all options fooling myself..knowing other options weren't an option 

 

Constantly fighting and am tired I'm  locked away double pad locked and it's co...

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24.09.20 

Tick tick tick 
Tap tap tap 
The clock ticks down 
On an inevitable time bomb 
That is my collapse 

You're the only thing keeping me together 
A solid foundation 

You never let me down 
Or abandon me 
Coz there's nothing you need from me 
Except perfection 

Show up at meetings 
Plan everything 
Be everything, for everyone 

I can be a wreck 
But I'm the perfect p...

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Unlovable

24.09.20 

She's a lot 
Too much 
For her self 
Or anybody else 

Keep giving 
And pouring 
Into a never ending void 

Keep loving 
The unlovable 
And I'll tear you apart too 

You sampled the poisen 
And it tasted so sweet 
Just enough to make you sick 

Stay with me 
If you want 
I won't beg 

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For Lease

16.09.20

Empty space 
A hole to fill up 
A vacant vessel 
An empty lot 

This soul is for rent
At the cheapest price 
Give me joy, give me compliments 
And I'll make your night 

A house made a home 
And weekends made perfect 
Just tell me I'm pretty 
Make me feel worthy 

But take it away and I'll tear don these walls 
Rip this house to the ground 
And spit on the floor 

My...

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Paranoia

25.03.20

When your brain is used to trickery 
It eats itself alive
Deceit is all you know 
And the way you have survived 

Be vigilant with friends
And vigilant with foes 
On guard for lies so constantly 
Analysis in tow

Are they truthful in their words?
Your brain it analyses
Putting piece and piece together 
A puzzle it disguises 

There's a slip says your mind 
Some evidence...

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Burden

Am I a burden or a blessing?

Until now I've brought you pain,

nitpicked neurotic neural pathways

produced images of you burdening people

nuked your brain by old beliefs.

 

The pitter patter of your baby

put like a seal pup on your chest

but I was there for stop her suckling,

I didn't want her to breathe

No-one except me knew you bitch.

 

After all we've been thr...

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A Mess of Future Heathens

Seeing the shadow in vision
Getting feared of what the great poison
Hiding out back to the scratch
Tired of being what they're interpreted 
To be looked up in the sun
To be puked in deep water run
To be lost in relief distance
I was fight, 
But no lights were made
So where is is heading through wind? 
Passing it off to be betrayed and seen
That soak tree's been relied on
As this volt i...

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OCD.

Tick, Tock.

Look at the clock.

Wait seven seconds.

Look at the clock.

Wait seven seconds.

Look at the clock.

Wait seven seconds.

Look at the

Wait---

 

Tip, Tap.

Each finger raps the desk.

Once then twice then thrice.

Each finger raps the desk.

Once then twice then thrice.

Each finger raps the desk.

Once then twice then thrice.

Each finger

Once-...

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anxiety.

the cobra

                  w

                      r

                        a

                     p

                 s

                    its tail around my neck

its name is

                     anxiety.

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As The Sun Rises

I lay on a hard mattress curled in the foetal position,

wrapped in a chrysalis of darkness.

A fancy metaphor could not explain the meaning of life,

it had simply become irrelevant.

I had become so skinny that my skin was pulled

guitar string taut over aching bones,

that doctors had threatened to hospitalise me.

But now, allergic to life, my skin peeled at the thought of being.

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Psychotic Girl

lying in the bath, curled in a daze

staring at my hand, ring finger twitching

eyes losing focus, antipsychotics sedating

right foot twitching, clinically agitated

stomach protruding, appetite increased

screams of bubbles bursting, whispers intruding

scent of my body, artificial strawberry

ignore the shouts, but they hurt me

mountains of bubbles, naïve body purifying

pray...

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Where’s me head? [Where is my head?]

Where’s me head? [Where is my head?]

 

Where’s me head? … It’s in the sand

Its life has gotten out of hand

Things very rarely go as planned

If I do or I don’t, I end up damned

 

Where’s me head? … It’s way out west

It’s tired of people who know best

It needs a break, it needs a rest

It needs to get shit off its chest

 

Where’s me head? … It’s lost the plot

It...

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Adut Akech, Depression and Mental Heath

Adut Akech, Depression and Mental Heath

 

Adut Akech Adelaide model

Is the biggest fashion superstar in the world

She just turned 19 here at Christmas

And waiting for her world to unfurl

 

Despite the famous smile she displays

Underneath she's in pain with depression

Like Robin Williams who suicided

Let's talk mental health, learn some lessons

 

She'd wake up ea...

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Can't Escape

You try to escape the demons

But they latch on way too tight,

Their claws digging into my body

And mind, with all their might.

 

Fighting is exhausting,

It physically and mentally drains.

But still I endure it, hoping

One day I will finally escape the pain.

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A Bipolar Mind

Each day, more exhausting than the last.

Time goes far too slowly, or too fast.

you're either extremely low, or elevated.

People either love you, or you're hated.

 

There is no middle ground

- no inbetween.

Everything is one extreme.

you're either Jekyll or you're Hyde.

It is a never ending fight.

 

You're a walking contradiction ,

With no explanation,

No cha...

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Real Life Nightmare

Every moment to fear,

Forever holding back internal tears.

Life- so complicated,

forever indecisive.

The world too big, too scary,

my mind so full of queries.

Never certain, never happy,

each decision could be deadly.

An escapes impossible,

every outcomes implausible.

Sinking under water,

Always being taken for a martyr.

The pain runs so deep,

Barely able to ...

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Canaries in the Mine

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Canaries in the mine.

Kids that cut themselves. 

New mums on Prozac, 

Calpol poured down tiny throats.

Twelve year olds try ketamine

(already smoking weed).

Prepubescent boys

ask to drink girl’s pussy juice.

‘Mum, what does he mean?’

A teenage girl has overdosed.

Everybody’s glued to screens.

Can anybody see 

 

canaries in the ...

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Diary Of The Southern Queen Entry #37 {Multiple Personalities Disorder}

Dissociative identity disorder, previously called multiple personality disorder, is usually a reaction to trauma as a way to help a person avoid bad memories.

Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality identities. Each may have a unique name, personal history, and characteristics.

 

 

Sorry to say that's not me or never has been ...

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Would they care?

would they care???

it seems like a void
waking up trapped inside
should i live another day?
should i rather die?

would they know im gone?
would they feel bad??
would they miss me forever?
or will it pass like a fad?

surely they will move on
thats how life works
but they wont be Able to replace me
they should miss my quirks

but is this life worth living??
i ponder deep and wit...

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OCD

O-C-D-C

1-2-3;

D-C-O-C

4-5-6;

Must touch once, twice, thrice!

Otherwise I must pay the price!

Penetrating thoughts that won’t go away,

Compulsions that haunt me day by day,

Anxiety comes, anxiety goes,

Got guilt, depression and so much obsession.

O-C-D-C

1-2-3;

C-D-O-D

Please leave me!

 

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Lost

I can't find it anywhere,

It's gone, disappeared,

Hidden somewhere dark.

 

I looked amongst the books,

I searched the internet,

I even checked the fridge.

 

I don't know where I put it,

I tried to keep it safe,

I don't remember where it is.

 

People have helped me look,

First a lady doctor,

Then a psychiatrist.

 

The CPN, she looked around,

She ev...

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Lemons

They say, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

You start slicing those lemons

Knife slips

Where's the first aid?

The lemons are too sour to put in a drink

The sugar runs out

The water rusty from the kitchen sink

The lemons keep coming

They're heavy to hold

From innocent lemonade stands

To bags of lemons turning to mold

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Fey Times

Fey Times
Oh this unwelcome thing in my head has returned on this beautiful July summers day. I felt its onset, of this thing, last night. My sleep was troubled. Like a few rough waves before the cyclone hits home. An hour ago it hit me, a varied mental assault. Anxiety machine gunning my mind. Taking no prisoners here.

Hidden inner darkness rattles its lid and wants to escape the box. F...

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