A Poem For Days When I Don't Want To Get Out Of Bed

Some days, I wake up in the morning

And something

Perhaps the torrential downpour outside my window

Or even the hurricane inside my mind

Makes me want to stay in bed.

Sometimes, the world feels like a dart board

And I am the target

It seems like everyone on this planet is throwing sharp objects at me

Then picking them up only to take aim again.

Most of the time, I feel like I don’t belong here

My own country feels foreign to me.

But my bed is my sanctuary;

Nobody can harm me there

Nothing can make me fall down.

 

But I need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day

Just 24 hours and it will be over

And tomorrow could be the day everything changes

The day that I see the world in a new light.

I have to tell myself to be optimistic

Because my bed may keep me safe from the rest of the world

But it doesn’t keep me safe from myself

And when I am alone

My mind works in overdrive

Running through thoughts filled with sadness and suicide.

I need a distraction from these thoughts in my head

So I throw back the covers and get out of bed.

Reviews

[Travis Gibson (poetic h..]

You have captured the conflicts that a troubled soul faces sharply. I know these emotions... I enjoyed the turn of emotion at the end. Excellent.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

A very poignant write, expressing well the struggle to stay safe in the womb of bed but the realisation that running from life is not possible and you have to cope. Glad you have that optimism in there!

[Laura Harrison]

Thank you :)