#MightyPoets

Here is my poem:

The night, a slithering snake.
Long enough to devour my consciousness.
I didn't know how to escape the clutches of its fangs.
Wondering if I would ever escape its scales. One scale already a month's worth of traveling. Sleepless.
Would I ever see the day where the snake, Insom, slithers away.

I concentrate. Focus. Sit where Insom rests in the subconscious realm.
I catch her and lock her away for a night.

I can finally rest and step into another realm where I'm free.
I can see the sun again.
The brightness hurts my eyes.

Looking forward to reading what everyone comes up with! ✍️🧐😁

#MightyPoets #CheckInWithMe #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #Disability #ChronicIllness #RareDisease #ChronicPain

I love many songs from the Beatles White Album, but discovered to my horror yesterday that I’d never actually listened to all of tracks. I heard this Lennon penned song, Dear Prudence, for the first time and it struck a chord. The chord turned into inspiration for altered lyrics, to serve as the poetic voice to describe the battle with Chronic Illness. Hands up if you agree?

Dear Impudence
Won’t you let me out to play?
Dear Impudence
Make me whole again each day
To enjoy the sun up, the sky blue
It would be beautiful, to be anew
Dear Impudence
Won't you let me out to play?
Dear Impudence
See me, don’t advert your eyes
Dear Impudence
Let me bath in sunny skies
The wind low, the birds that sing
I want to be part of everything
Dear Impudence
Why won’t you open up your eyes?

Look around
Dear Impudence
Bless me with your smile
Dear Impudence
My unerring petulant child
Let the clouds form a daisy chain
So l can smile again
Dear Impudence
Won’t you let me smile?
Dear Impudence
Won’t you let me out to play?
Dear Impudence
I want to greet the brand new day
See the sun up, the sky blue
It would be beautiful, to be anew
Dear Impudence
Free me, so I can go out to play.

Original Lyrics: The Beatles
Image: Public Domain

#MightyMusic #Music #MyCondition #MightyPoets #DistractMe #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness

This burden on my back
Has never been light
It’s been there for so long
I’ve almost forgotten how to fight.

When the nights get really long
And I feel I’m at death’s door
I pray for the sun to come up
Because I can’t take it any more.

I have everything I need
Except a sense of calm
I don’t know why I can’t be
Still - I feel like a bomb

Yes, it’s heavy
But I carry it just the same
Because if I didn’t
I’d crush under its weight.

#MentalHealth #MightyPoets #BipolarDisorder #Depression #Anxiety #PTSD #AddictionRecovery #ChronicIllness #Disability

I don't have any idea how many times I'd read the same cereal box day after day at breakfast. Did you have the same fun? #everythinggenx #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #lifeslittlejoys #liftmeup #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom

Eat a cookie! Or anything else your heart desires when life gets you down. #lifeslittlejoys #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #liffmeup #everythinggenx #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom

I used to have bunnies so they have a special place in my heart and these are adorable!#liftmeup #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #lifeslittlejoys #everythinggenx #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom

Happy Wednesday! Hope this brings you a smile and helps you get through the rest of the week!#liftmeup #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #lifeslittlejoys #everythinggenx #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom

When you make the choice of joy in your life, it is actually Brave because it is much harder to do so with everything that life throws at you.#lifeslittlejoys #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #liftmeup #everythinggenx #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom #MightyArtRoom

Remember when parents allowed kids to do this? As well as no helmets for bikes, skateboards, etc. Totally different mindsets then.#everythinggenx #MightyTogether #TheMighty #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Depression #sad #Trauma #PTSD #CPTSD #Shame #ChildhoodEmotionalAbuse #MentalHealth #Religious Trauma #SexualTrauma #Daterape #MedicalTrauma #InflammatoryBowelDiseaseIBD #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis #jpouch #BodyImage #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #Insomnia #GastroesophagealRefluxDisease #RheumatoidArthritis #Jointpain #stomachulcer #PelvicFloorDysfunction #stricture #MultipleDisabilities #Lonliness #Grief #Suicide #SuicideAwareness #checkinonme #liftmeup #lifeslittlejoys #DistractMe #MightyMinute #CheerMeOn #MakeMeLaugh #52SmallThings #MightyPoets #MightyArtRoom