Some people from birth
Fated to be mentally ill
Inherited
Genetic
Where’s the fairness
In that
Despite the unfairness
The affliction
Some are able
To lead great lives
Some famously
Others with more severe
Psychological conditions
Not so
Were I born that way
And suffered with serious
Mental illness
That treatments
And pills
Could barely
Or not alleviate
I’d wonder
Why me
And were my condition
So severe
I could barely function
Even medicated
I can see how
I or most anyone
Could become suicidal
From the
Constant torment
Of it all
Bob Boyd
Author: BobBoyd
Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-)
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