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Published: 2019-12-17 20:02:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1458; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 0
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After recovery
she said her mind was quiet,
but how does a mind sound
when it's at rest?
What does a mind sound like
when an imagined catastrophe
doesn't occur every 2.7 seconds?
Or when it's not constantly scanning,
perceiving the next risk
and blazing in to attack
some less than idle threat?
How does it stay safe
when it's not creating
CONSTANTSPIRALING
PANIC?
How does it feel
when your own mind
doesn't portray
every
waking
moment
as survival?
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I felt this. I’ve tried to imagine my own life without anxiety, and it’s so difficult. How are there people who can just walk into a room and start a conversation with someone? Or just answer the phone like it’s so easy to do? I like how you broke up your lines, especially towards the end. It really made the piece feel intense, especially the final verse. Using bold and different font sizes also built up to “PANIC” well. The only thing that didn’t quite feel right to me was the opening line, “After recovery”. Since the theme of the poem is the mind and not someone recovering, it could have easily started with “She said her mind was quiet” and not lose any of the impact. Great work!
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I read "recovery" as a woman who had recovered from a long term illness, and thought her mind might finally be quiet because she no longer had to worry about her sickness. The speaker in the poem sounded almost jealous (to me, at least), over the ability to have a quiet mind. This poem works on a lot of different levels which makes it pretty powerful in my book.
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Good for you. Keep writing, my friend, he says to you and to himself.
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This really hit me. Hard. It fills me with anger (more) though, mostly, towards the one's in life who Work at making a person feel - and live - in just this state.
And the depth of evil behind who they are.
Many people (and situations) can relate to this. Many thanks for posting. We need to get more outspoken in our feelings and thoughts; if not to simply take away the power that fear - any fear at all - has over us.
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Thank you, I'm trying harder to be more open about mental health because I know a lot of people go through things that they're scared to talk about (for fear of labels, stigma, etc). 
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That's right. talk. talk. and more talk!!!
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