The Show is over

Right well having submitted my poems to a comp they wrote back saying that I am excluded because they don't meet their criterion for a positive focus on mental health. So I thought I'd post one of them here instead. As mentioned they were for a competition and it asked that you draw your inspiration from the sentence. 'With good mental health I have..'
Well as I like to use metaphors a lot I decided to do something not quite so obvious. It's called the show is over and focuses on what happens after you get well.


The Show is over

The show is over so turn the spot light off, this villain is no more
and let me interact without a script or direction from the floor
now let me move and touch and speak as I wish to be
The show is over so let me take this costume off, that points me out as mad
let me remove this face you plastered on , the clothes that made me bad
now let me choose my look, the one that is so me

The show is over so let the audience in, It’s time for us to meet
for them to see the real me, the one that took such a back seat
the one that hid afraid of them, afraid of what they would see

The show is over so let me go home to live my life once more
to shape and mould and fill it with what I wish for
a life of ups and downs where I am free to be me

It's been a while

Oh my word it has been an age since I've posted anything. Well don't think that I haven't been writing althought it hasn't all be creative. I've been concentrating on a some poetry about what it's like to have good mental health. It's been a bit of a challenge and sadly not complete yet so instead I thought I'd revisit an old poem.

This one is called Slide show and the idea was to depict a person sitting down  to a slide show of the different faces they put on when they around other people and see themselves as others do. To ask why we do that, why we play so many roles and how exhausting it can be. Not sure I managed it.


Slide Show

Whirr... click clunk
it’s me
youthful, energetic
confident and sexy
lover and partner

Whirr...click, clunk
me as a mother
tower of strength
decisive, understanding

Whirr...click, clunk
me at work
clever, capable

Click clunk
with friends
witty and charming

Click, clunk
with relatives
tense, cowed,

Clunk
with strangers
clunk
with school teachers
clunk,
with other mothers

Whirr... click
whirr...click
whirr... click
whirr... click, clunk
eyes wide, staring back at me
questioning
whirr...