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My mental illnesses are a board of directors
Overseeing my vast and complicated brain as if it were a company.
Anxiety is the guy who was hired to be creative,
To come up with all the what-ifs, the hypotheticals.
He's rarely right but they all think he's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
Bipolar is a scatterbrained woman who's always the last
To make up her mind
And most of time after she does, she changes it.
Often more than once.
She's an inconvenience but they all think she's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
PTSD has a photographic memory and she never forgets
An event, a word, a smell, a feeling
The most random thing will remind her of one of these
And she doesn't hesitate to bring them up at the most inopportune of times.
She's annoying and distracting but they all think she's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
Depression is the head of the board who feeds off the actions of all the others
Then twists them around and makes it all about him,
how it made him feel sad and degenerate.
And he never, ever fails to shift the blame for this to the CEO.
He's the worst of them all but they all think he's good to have around.
The CEO strongly disagrees
And wishes that she could fire them all,
Replacing them with those who actually get her and her company
But part of her knows that without them
Her company wouldn't be her own.
The CEO wouldn't be herself.
Overseeing my vast and complicated brain as if it were a company.
Anxiety is the guy who was hired to be creative,
To come up with all the what-ifs, the hypotheticals.
He's rarely right but they all think he's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
Bipolar is a scatterbrained woman who's always the last
To make up her mind
And most of time after she does, she changes it.
Often more than once.
She's an inconvenience but they all think she's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
PTSD has a photographic memory and she never forgets
An event, a word, a smell, a feeling
The most random thing will remind her of one of these
And she doesn't hesitate to bring them up at the most inopportune of times.
She's annoying and distracting but they all think she's good to have around.
The CEO disagrees.
Depression is the head of the board who feeds off the actions of all the others
Then twists them around and makes it all about him,
how it made him feel sad and degenerate.
And he never, ever fails to shift the blame for this to the CEO.
He's the worst of them all but they all think he's good to have around.
The CEO strongly disagrees
And wishes that she could fire them all,
Replacing them with those who actually get her and her company
But part of her knows that without them
Her company wouldn't be her own.
The CEO wouldn't be herself.
Literature
Gay? Who? Me.
Are you gay?
The question at first startled me.
Speechless, unsure what I could say.
Are you gay?
The second time it was asked and I was silent
I had heard it before, but just earlier that day.
Are you gay?
Each time it was asked it filled me with shock.
What did it matter either way?
Are you gay?
When it was asked for the last time, I was at a loss.
Should I lie or lay in the bed I had made?
I am gay.
Maybe I am too young to know,
But this is what my heart wills me to say.
I am gay.
Maybe it is foolish to say so,
Yet it would be true to this day.
I am gay.
There can be hate or they can embrace.
I won't waver either way.
Literature
A letter from a gay son.
Dear Dad,
There are some thing that must be said between me and you. Some points that must be covered. For a long time now, I have hated you. For many different reasons. Let me explain.
For the first 14 years of my life, I did not know you as a sober man. Alcohol had consumed you life as fast as you consumed it. You were a raving, raging drunk whenever you were awake, or a passed out, smelly pile of rags when you weren't. It was pathetic to watch.
I have no doubt that the hardest choice you made during those years was weather to come home and pass out, beat up me, or beat up mom. How you could have ever called this a life is beyond me. You
Literature
I would rather...
"I would rather die in the streets a happy man than live a life of lies as a miserable woman." -FreedomFlareon
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Wow, this is brilliant!