Read DIchotomies: Poetry From Bipolar Disorder Page 3


  It never surrenders

  It asks no favors

  It needs little feed

  But it thrives on

  a single chance

  Just one is all it needs

  One chance the key

  They say hope springs eternal

  I'm here to call them right

  Hope never truly dies

  Nor gives up the fight

  I Am The Void And The Void Is Me

  I drift in the void.

  Alone, not even echoes to accompany me

  Motionless, I spin through life

  But it doesn't touch me

  Abandoned by all

  Neither do I touch life

  Nothing to slow me down

  Nothing to halt the spin

  I am a hole in the fabric of life

  A vacuum at it's center

  I am the void, the void is me

  It has consumed me

  I am antimatter in the universe

  Polar opposite to the matter of the world

  I am nothing

  A complete absence of all

  A black whole in the substance of the universe

  I drift anywhere, nowhere, everywhere

  All of life passes me by

  Passes right through me

  I am without form,

  Without substance

  Nothing touches me

  No joy, no pain, no love, no hatred, no tears

  For I am the void and the void is me

  I Am Trying To Be A Happier Soul

  It has lifted, this dark and black mood

  But I fear that it's not gone for good

  It's still there at the edges somewhere

  It makes me want to pull out my hair

  I'm torn 2 ways, ever up and back down

  Don't know where I'm going but I haven't a frown

  Not a smile is there ever to be found

  It's lost in the snow covered ground

  But no frown is there upon my face

  Not a one, not the slightest trace

  I know that I'm moving out there somewhere

  But the direction I'm going is up in the air

  My mood is uncertain, it's changing somehow

  If it doesn't get better then I will have a cow

  My nerves they are frayed, all over I shake

  I feel that I'm standing in an earthquake

  My head is clogged with thoughts of all kind

  I don't know whose they are but they aren't mine

  I can't sleep a wink, not one little bit

  The thoughts are running, it just doesn't fit

  The world is spinning, it simply won't stop

  I want off of this wildly whirling top

  Like the world I spin around and around

  The way to stop me hasn't been found

  I know this spinning will stop someday

  If only it happens before death comes my way

  It exhausts me and makes me ever so tired

  On the bottom I bounce, in the mud I am mired

  I know that someday better it will be

  This depressive person cannot be me

  I am trying to be a happier soul

  I don't know which way the dice will roll

  I Need....

  I need... an amorphous SOMETHING....

  Some otherworldly magical life line

  The need is appallingly overwhelming

  Something out of space and out of time

  Sickeningly weak and unable to stand

  And face the world on my own two feet

  I don't want yet I need a helping hand

  Disgusts me so that my face I do beat

  Obligations, connections are all around

  Shackles that lock me into a fake non-life

  They are all lost, nowhere to be found

  Pangs of loneliness in my soul are rife

  If in heaven a loving God there may be

  He'll allow me to end it once and for all

  For surely it is plain the waste that is me

  Please let me answer death's peaceful call

  I Once Was Sane

  I once was sane but now I'm not

  Insane thoughts in my head I've got

  Thoughts of tearing and bashing all I see

  Thoughts of smearing and smashing even me

  I once was sane but now I'm crazy

  In my head everything is hazy

  It's all a blur and so indistinct

  I can't keep going on instinct

  I once was sane but now I'm insane

  Any hope of normalcy is on the wane

  Leaving me doubting my very mind

  Looking for something I can't find

  I once was sane but now I'm not

  All hopes and dreams have gone to rot

  I Sing A Good Song

  I sing a good song

  Don't get me wrong

  But when it comes down to it

  I find that I'm just not fit

  To give anyone wise words

  That's just for the birds

  How can I counsel you

  When I'm lost there too

  Think not of death I cried

  All the while inside me died

  Get some air I said

  While laying in my bed

  You are worth it I crowed

  While convinced I'm a load

  I counseled you be strong

  While knowing I was wrong

  Strength is not for such as us

  We don't have tickets for that bus

  Life's God's gift to us I said

  Always knowing where it led

  To a lock it does lead

  To unwanted life indeed

  You are unique I stated

  While life inside me waited

  For the death that comes for sure

  That will make everything so pure

  It's not your fault I told you

  And all the time I blame me too

  I fear I've led you astray

  It just won't ever go away

  Death is the only sure escape

  Superman I'm not, I have no cape

  I'm just a man who thought he knew

  But now I'm ready to join you too

  I Speak In Code

  I speak in code

  Of things forbode

  From deep inside

  My twisted mind

  Where alien voice

  Assaults all choice

  I'm On Top Of The World

  I'm spinning round like a top

  I never know where I'll stop

  My thoughts they are a racing

  And my feet they are a pacing

  My hands they are trembling

  Calm they're not resembling

  My head it is awhirl,

  I'm on top of the world

  It's mine to do with as I please

  Love and peace will never cease

  It all lies at my feet

  I will give me a treat

  Lightning bolts I will hurl

  From on high, the top of the world

  Don't worry, if you've no hate

  Then you'll not suffer that fate

  Those with love I will gather

  Everyone, it doesn't matter

  Brothers we'll be, one and all

  We will hold this world in thrall

  So it's best you be full of love

  Or off this world you I'll shove

  Illusion

  It is all just an illusion

  A painful, bloody contusion

  Reality so adverse

  Silently rage and curse

  Lost in endless confusion

  I'm Sorry

  I'm sorry is but a song we sing

  When we break someone's wing

  Worthless words in the air

  If when spoken we don't care

  If inside us they are real

  Broken hearts they may heal

  In My Darkened Sky


  The world is black and so am I

  The light never shines

  In my darkened sky

  The moon's not high

  The stars don't twinkle

  In my darkened sky

  The cold is nigh

  The black is palpable

  In my darkened sky

  In A Land Of Darkness Am I Lost

  In a land of black darkness am I lost

  I want out of this land no matter the cost

  I'm tired of tears burning down my face

  Of the thoughts setting my heart to race

  Thoughts of death, of peace at last

  It's set in stone, the die is cast

  The emptiness that eats me alive

  Is buried way down deep inside

  It sucks up my soul and spits it out

  The pain of it makes me shout

  On the wind my cries are blown

  No one to hear, away they've flown

  Still in my head the echoes ring

  But of love and joy I'll never sing

  For no heart is inside of me

  Just a hole like you'll never see

  With death I have a date ahead of me

  A date from which I cannot flee

  Not at all do I worry over my fate

  Peace at last, I just can't wait

  Insanity

  Whirling, twirling flashes of thought

  Disharmony and discord is wrought

  Kaleidoscopic, fractured images of color

  Running down in endless streaks galore

  A viciously spinning, sucking whirlpool

  Eagerly devouring this weak, pitiful fool

  Jagged flashes scorch mind's terrain

  In the end is nothing but endless pain

  Joy

  Joy is a treasure to behold

  It lightens the heart,

  Or so I am told

  Often sought, seldom found

  It is the grease that

  Lets this world go round

  It is indeed a treasure

  One of a few that

  Always bring you pleasure

  Yes joy is made of gold spun thread

  So fragile yet so valuable

  Always longed for, so it is said

  So today seek your greatest joy

  Don't treat it lightly

  For your greatest joy isn't a toy

  Wrap it tight in your arms

  Treasure it always.

  Ever keep it from harm

  It'll serve you well when the chips are down

  When the sun stops shining

  When on your face grows a frown

  Into The Wind

  The wind blowing in my face

  Sets my strong heart to race

  The road that beneath my feet rolls by

  Carries me to that great orb in the sky

  White lines and blacktop stretching out

  Leading to freedom without a doubt

  Into the bend, scraping the pegs

  The power throbs between my legs

  Wide open throttle down the straight

  Then hard on the brakes before it's too late

  It matters not turning left or turning right

  Each vista I pass is a brand new sight

  One with the road going who knows where

  Someplace off in the distance right over there

  Listen sharp I hear the road calling me

  I answer that call cause it sets me free

  The wind in my face carries me away

  To the land of my dreams on this beautiful day

  Live free or die I have heard it said

  On my two wheels I will never be led

  The wind and the blacktop show me the way

  To a land where dreams ever hold sway

  Isolation

  The walls press in like weights

  The silence hangs like the dead sea

  I'm the one who lately hates

  The stillness that surrounds me

  Other bodies fill my home

  Noise and commotion do abound

  Yet here I sit alone

  In stillness with no sound

  My head's full of the dark

  My heart's broken in two

  To my memories I do hark

  They press in on me too

  I'm isolated again

  When facing others I just balk

  Yet I remember when

  I had friends with whom to talk

  The loneliness is pain

  It wreaks havoc in my soul

  I'm sitting here again

  The hurt takes it's toll

  Don't know where I went wrong

  That I deserve this ache

  To be alone all day long

  Is more then I can take

  My world lacks any light

  No joy does it contain

  There's nothing that is bright

  It's full of only pain

  It Doesn't Work Anymore

  Positive, negative, yin and yang

  Ripped to shreds by bloodied fang

  Here and now nothing makes sense

  Nerves quivering so taught and tense

  Rotten corruption buried deep inside

  Driven to escape, run away and hide

  No place in this world to ever belong

  A puss filled blot, existence is wrong

  On all the universe a most evil curse

  A cancer, a chancre, even something worse

  Just Going Along

  Just going along, doing my thing

  Come what may, where it might lead

  Upstream or down it matters not

  Seeking peace, alone is what I need

  Passing all by, unseen as a phantom

  Near and afar, o'er the edge and back

  A smoky thin ghost made of vapor

  An unseen and unseeable enigma

  Untouched and untouchable forever

  Ever apart from the world around

  No place in reality whatsoever

  It Is The Cycle Of BP, It Is Your Life

  First it goes up then it goes down

  Forever it goes around and around

  Never resting, always spinning on and on

  Destroying the mind till all sanity's gone

  Inward it rolls then it turns out

  Placing your sanity always in doubt

  Never resting, never slowing

  You never know where it is going

  It carries with it your hopes and dreams

  All resting on a whim or so it seems

  It tosses them over here and there

  It treats them without any care

  Your sanity is it's play thing

  No truth from it ever does ring

  It makes you always question your mind

  Places in doubt of what is it's kind

  Onward it spins, forever it rolls

  Never mindful of the pain it doles

  Relationships it wrecks, lives it destroys

  Plays with them like they are so many toys

  It has no compassion, it never feels sorrow

  It cares not a whit for today or tomorrow

  All that matters is it spins like a top

  And that it will never come to a stop

  It is the cycle of BP, it is your life

  It's always there, ever causing you strife

  I've Fought It Before, I'll Fight It Again

  The blackness, ever the black

  Always the dark, never the light

  It saps my strength, kills my resolve

  It's impossible to continue the fight

  This way I look, that way I stare

  But I cannot see anything at all

  To help me grasp the walls of the pit

  I just cannot arrest my steep fall

  It sucks at me, sucks at me

  It drains all my will

  That it is back at all

  It is a most bitter pill

  I ha
ve no defenses

  Nothing left at all

  All light in the world

  It causes to pall

  This pit that I'm in

  Is ever so deep

  I think that this day

  Away I must sleep

  If only my mind

  Would shut down for good

  In the sleep of the grave

  Forever rest I could

  The bitterness of hatred

  Is what I feel for myself

  In sorrow and pain

  Must I always delve

  What a joke this is

  So rotten and cruel

  This isn't funny

  Nor is it a duel

  I've fought it before

  And I'll fight it again

  I just wish that it didn't

  Bring such goddamn pain

  Just One Tiny Clue

  I am... I have no clue

  Just what am I?

  Or maybe ask who?

  Am I just a lie?

  Would you give a hint?

  Just one tiny clue?

  I would give a mint

  To just know who

  Life Passing By

  I walk outside and hear their voices

  See them standing, walking, making choices

  Actions and interactions,