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




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