Tag: mental-health

• July 30, 2025

  Hopelessly Hopeful

  I think my problem is I’ve learnt to carry so much hope.Where once I turned to different thoughts less pleasant just to cope, I made a fundamental change in how I view my life. An ending I would like and not decided by a knife. And choosing that was harder, yes, but also brighter too;I thought…
• May 31, 2025

  Compulsion

  I close the window on myself before I break my gaze,Cut short the first and only breath of air I’ve had in days. What is this thing that moves my hand instinctively ahead,This foreign arm that reaches in to cut my single thread  Of lonely twine I’d woven with the hope of sewing shutThe ever…
• March 26, 2025

  Selfish Dream

  I thought that if I took the time to focus on myself,To take a step back off the ledge and focus on my health,  That surely now with time again to pause, to breathe, to think –I’d see that life has more for me than living on the brink. That maybe, if I took this…