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