World Mental Health Day - 2016

 

Some people they couldn’t even care less

Life is so very tough and full of unfairness

Today is the one annual day to raise awareness

Teach understanding tolerance and careness

This day is World Mental Health Day

Remember the date of October 10 okay

Speak up and tell Joe public better risk it

We are not just a statistic that takes the biscuit

 

Every day is a struggle just to get through

Medication can help you that may be so true

Sometimes all we need is a little respect

Mental illness has a long term devastating effect

If you could look inside my spinning head

You would see a landscape of anxiety and dread

I live in an invisible world under cloudy skies

You will never see the tears inside that I cry

 

There are lots of people that continue to suffer

Mother or father friend sister or brother

It could be your colleague partner or loved one

There is nowhere to hide and nowhere to run

I really don’t want to bore you or tell you lies

But an awful lot of people are stigmatized

In a world expecting perfection that is no surprise

We all have trials and tribulations that may arise

 

The time has come to stop talking and end my story

Hope my message has reached you in all its glory

The facts surely have something to teach you

Take it on board I don’t want to beseech you

They say it affects one person in four

Any day now it could knock on your door

World Mental Health Day October 10

It will be back next year to visit you once again