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Writing As Our Armor
Poetry Contest Description
Write a new poem of any length describing how writing fortifies your spirit. Some of us here on DUP suffer from mental health issues as well as addiction. How does poetry or writing in general lift your spirits?
Writing As My Armor
Unsighted eyes these are!
Blind with hallucinations
yet so perceptive of beauty.
I cannot recognize reality,
yet surrealism takes a definite form to me.
I don’t want to live like this forever.
It is not at all what I imagined
when I was very young.
I dreamed of being a soldier.
With an armor of confidence
and a superb IQ and riches.
But I cannot and will not deny reality!
I am mentally ill. I am not without oddities.
All I can do now is wear it as my armor,
or, as my strength in life against judgments!
If I am to rise again from the ashes of this life,
I need to understand I didn’t receive writing talent
as a gift but over my life I built it on my own!
Blind with hallucinations
yet so perceptive of beauty.
I cannot recognize reality,
yet surrealism takes a definite form to me.
I don’t want to live like this forever.
It is not at all what I imagined
when I was very young.
I dreamed of being a soldier.
With an armor of confidence
and a superb IQ and riches.
But I cannot and will not deny reality!
I am mentally ill. I am not without oddities.
All I can do now is wear it as my armor,
or, as my strength in life against judgments!
If I am to rise again from the ashes of this life,
I need to understand I didn’t receive writing talent
as a gift but over my life I built it on my own!
Written by gothicsurrealism
(Daniel Long)
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