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Richard 33
Member

since 1999-09-09

Posts 187
glen easton, wv usa

0 posted 1999-09-23 02:44 PM

This piece is to depict a day in the life
of a person with manic depression!!!

One pill to keep me from getting too high,
and one too keep me from flying to low,
my head is really spinning, so much I do not
know.
Lost is my direction, distance, space, and time,
for every time this has happened, I wish I had a dime.
In the darkness, I wander to a destination
I do not know where, sometimes it's all so much, I really just don't care.
Somedays on the edge, I think I'll go insane,
I need something just to pull me back, to ease this terrible pain.
There are times I am sure it is the end,
not unlike feelings you have after losing
your only friend.
It has been here with me 33+ years,
countless are the times, endless are the tears.
I vow I am not a quitter, it isn't all in
vain, I appreciate the life God gave me, so
i'll pick myself up tomorrow, and try it
once again!!!

[This message has been edited by Richard 33 (edited 09-23-1999).]

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 1999-09-23 03:18 PM

I know someone else who also shares your plight;
at least you are helping to try to make it right;
I will say a little prayer today, one that's just for you,
keep on keeping on, my prayer is that you do!

Pepper
Member Elite

since 1999-08-19

Posts 3079
Southern Florida

2 posted 1999-09-23 03:21 PM

my cousin also suffers from manic depression and has expressed these same feelings, but not as eloquently,.....hating the pills she must take...feeling low and high....feeling lost.....Richard I am going to send her a copy as well as her mother....this is a very well written explanation of a dibilatating and devasating disease.....thank you for sharing a very personal part of yourself.........

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May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams

Iloveit
Senior Member

since 1999-09-02

Posts 1121
NM

3 posted 1999-09-23 03:22 PM

richard, this is a great work, thanks for sharing a bit of you, each poem offered helps us to understand each poet better. I must say I have had trouble reading your poems, nothing to do with you, just have an old wound on my heart with the name Richard on it ~~....will keep you in my prayers also, and may your days pass easy for you~~

Richard 33
Member

since 1999-09-09

Posts 187
glen easton, wv usa

4 posted 1999-09-23 03:26 PM

Thank you very much for the positive
thoughts, and prayers. This poem contains
a special message, and that is as long as
you don't quit no matter what the problem
is, you can overcome anything. Never say
die!!!

****WHAT DOES NOT KILL US MAKE US STRONGER***
*********************************************

Richard 33
Member

since 1999-09-09

Posts 187
glen easton, wv usa

5 posted 1999-09-23 03:27 PM

Thank you very much for the positive
thoughts, and prayers. This poem contains
a special message, and that is as long as
you don't quit no matter what the problem
is, you can overcome anything. Never say
die!!!

****WHAT DOES NOT KILL US MAKE US STRONGER***
*********************************************

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