The voice

I dont suffer from schizophrenia, this is about a friend who does.

Sometimes I hear strange noises

Lights dance before my eyes

No one else see’s, no one else hears

What’s wrong with me?

No one else understands, I am alone

A bird taps at my window

It whispers to me, secrets of life

The lights swirl around in my head

The bird flies away, I am alone again

No I’m not, there’s a voice in here

Inside me, in my head

The lights intensify, they go wild

Who am I? Where am I? Who are you?

The voice intensifies, louder and louder

It tells me things, horrible things

I listen, I’m not alone now

But I want to be

Go away, leave; please

I can’t, I’m here, I’m you

It doesn’t stop, it poisons me

It eats my soul, one giant bite

I try to silence it,

I cry, I scream, I pound my head

I bleed

The lights stop, the voice is gone

I am alone

But for how long?

Reviews

[Bette]

emotional! i love it!

[Hippy]

i like this it reminds me of my arguements with my little voice its a dreadful time

[Jessica]

WOW I love it.
It is full of intense and I love your choice of verbs and adjectives.
The title....amazing.

[Kiynteyh]

Very intense and consuming. I liked it. :D

[Ross Saunders]

Very good, very intense. I like the general feel of it.

[Emily B]

schizoprenia?

I hear voices sometimes, within me, the words come from somewhere. They carry answers when I need them. And poetry.

[Glenn Davis]

Schizophrenia anyone? This brought up a question in my head that I have thought of since, well since i first noticed when i think inside my head I hear a voice to what i am thinking. What does it sound like in the head of a deaf person. My inner voice speaks in english. Do they think in pictures, sign language? Anyway enough about that. I really like the lines:

"A bird taps at my window
It whispers to me, secrets of life"

It reminds me of Kahlil Gibran.

[Naomi Montana Walsh]

Congratulations, funny it is possible to not be alone when it seems as if you are and to be alone when it seems as if you are not.
Truly it is a state of mind.

[The Flawed]

I like it,
I think we all have these voices in our head,
Some call it conscious, some call it ego, some the devil in you..........
It's just that most people choose to ignore it, but poets listen to it and write about it,
But hay, what do I know?

[deeps]

Wow! Intense and full of powerful emotion!
Very well written and expressed!