literature

her bones are no more metal than ours

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Literature Text

She says to me,

I've been lucky, everything slides past
and I just don't fall down.

Sometimes, she says,
I'd like to fall down, to come apart
the way people like you do

but I'm stronger than that,
and I just can't afford it.

(I wish she knew

nobody can afford it,
and we are all strong

but sometimes life is heavy
and mental illness doesn't
discriminate:

it's just a shame
that people like her

do.)
I don't believe in leaving these blank, but there's not a great deal to say that isn't already said in a very straightforward way.

(Sometimes poetry isn't about prettying up the truth with lovely words. Sometimes it's just truth, plain and blunt.)
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haphazardmelody's avatar
I hate it when people act in such an ignorant way. No one chooses to be sick, no matter what form that sickness may take.