#1 in poetry- 26/7/18
Every day, thousands of people struggle with mental and physical illnesses, fighting battles people refuse to talk about. I'm here to change that. This poetry collection shines a light on mental illness, hopefully saving a few...
I spend my life fixing things Snapping the twigs of a birch tree to make a splint for a bird's wing
Sawing the branches, to make more room for the cat's paws
Fixing the table when the dogs tripped over it
Making a turtle a terrific shell. A home for it to live in.
Protecting all the mice and birds, from power hungry predators
But I do not feel so much pride in fixing any of these things.
As I do in fixing
You
Plastering your scars Saying everything's ok Listening to your problems That your there, more than halfway Telling you your not meant to look like the models in magazines Cause that's fake Fake Not real, a phony Crooked, bad and corny A fabricated story
You look better than all of them Put together Because you, girl have the greatest heart And that doesn't need fixing It doesn't hurt that you're beautiful But you don't see that at all I was the only one to notice When you put a sign up, vacant, free Oh what you mean to me But I keep it all inside Swallow all my pride But girl, I lied You are all I think about The one person I can't Live without
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