World Mental Health Day - a poem
Think Before You Speak I sat here today Enclosed in darkness Though the sun shone through my window I couldn't feel a thing. Isolated by inertia The black dog snarls before me His deafening barking blocks my path To the outside world. I have been drowned by angry words Sorrow ties its millstone I sink unable to scream Or even utter a word. Hatred caused this misery While jealousy took its hand Vicious words were born on walls Invisible to the hands. Welcome to my blackened world Where silently I hide From wounding words that burn - think before you speak next time. copyright carol ann lewis 2019