Welcome to mental health week
where we will give you
gifts and activities, websites, slogans,
"gratefulness" regimes, encouragement, positivity,
personal responsibility, beads and mirrors.
Your cries of rage and pain
as usual
will be disregarded.
Distract, detract,
atomise and commodify,
wellbeing is a shiny, shiny thing.
It's all in your head.
Focus on the one thing you can change
(self-regulate)
You (asked for it).
YOU ARE READING
Sweeping Winds and Rainbow Beginnings
PoetryThese are a few of my poems. I would prefer to take my time and try to sort the better ones out from the rubbish so it might take me a while to collect. I hope you can stop by and enjoy a poem or several. In poetry (good or bad) we express something...