diagnoses

I was diagnosed, barely into secondary school, as clinically depressed. A diagnosis which I have carried on my shoulders ever since.But I am still here, so I guess it didn’t win yet? I was diagnosed, more-or-less the same time as above, with dysmenorrhea.*A diagnosis which I was told to get on and live with because…

Scorched & Scorned

Abolish my lungs and then send me to sleep. You can do what you want. I won’t feel a thing.Grind my bones into dust to make your own bread.Take all that you can until nothing else is left. My mind is a heaven only I see.My soul aches to fly; it calls to be free.  My…

On Sundays, I drown a little more

Tears prick my eyes.I gulp as though I’m taking on water.I shiver as if winter still lingers in this April spring.I cannot comprehend life, nor what it is supposed to mean.In our younger days we were made promises.You could become and do whatever you wanted.We were told that the world was our oyster and that…

phoenix

I watch the ink sink as my mind betrays my pen again and begins to overthink.I wanted something concrete/ profound/tangible/significant/to prove actual talent.Medication sweeps over on a breeze of instability.I am fighting sleep.I find myself itching to return to the dreamsI so rarely achieve. Is happiness still signified if the two magpies lie dead, side…