Challenge
Write a free verse poem about a mental disease. Preferably a fictional story, but it can be based on a real life experience with the disease
Mind
Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in with the monsters who watch you constantly
Beeping in red
With machinery eyes.
Breathe out with the doctors
Who have warped voices
That travel in and out of your memory
Asking you how you feel.
Breathe, count to ten.
Speak, try to talk, try to tell them what you want.
Just try to.
Why talk when you want to run?
Remember to breathe
Inhale, exhale,
Waiting for the euphoria to wash over you again and steal your oxygen.
Breathe in.
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