By the time you read this, I’d be gone Not gone gone as in dead, no But gone as in gone, No longer here. Here, where the pain is real Here, where I’m much too aware of every beat of my ever hurting heart. I’d be gone before you read this So I can act …
Poems on Depictions of Mental Illness by Gift Oyewole Read More »
Staring up at the ceiling, listening to the tick-tock sound of the clock, clawing at the already cut corners of my finger nails, anxiety seeps in as I wait for the strike of noon to cross an item off my to-do list wondering if I did turn the office lights off. There’s always a constant …
Hello, I’m depression. The one that makes your mascara stain your eyelids, as tears perpetuate your eyes; Or maybe you wish to deny me that, I make you punch walls in hopelessness. I’m the one that makes your lips deprive your belly of food, Reducing you to bones and more bones; Or maybe I take …
[3RD POSITION] Hello, I’m Depression- A Poem by Excel Adeogun Read More »
these days, i find myself fearing the rain/my heart skipping at the sight of grey clouds./ even as i write this poem, my anxiety holds me in, like a caged bird/ & i wonder if sudden rays of the sun can melt this numbness i’m about to plunge in./my mother once told me some types …
[2nd Position] some boys don’t wear colours of the wind- A Poem by Taiwo Hassan Read More »
This is what mental illness looks like: Dearest, dysfunctional being, here we go again—sinking, falling, crashing, the floor beneath always with the giving away. Here we go again—dragging ourselves to catch up with Life, who–despite our heavy pants and wails—simply goes on, moving and moving. Life; sprinting, leaving. And you? Us? With the soundless screams …
[1st Position] Hymn to the depressed soul- A Poem by Emmanuella Chisom James Read More »