Mental health # Day 10

Today is World Mental Health Day first established in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health. It's a day to raise awareness about mental health issues through education and advocacy. One in four adults and one in five children will experience mental illness this year. (Resource: NAMI)

Here's my acrostic for OctPoWriMo Day 10  

Mind plays in dark passion

Efforts of balancing fail

Nonchalantly ignoring

These sharpened edges of disbelief     

Aren’t we all crazy in our ways

Living in our own worlds?

 

Heightened illusions healed through

Eliminating the obstacles

And letting the light shine.

Love flows in abundance.

Traumatic imprints

Heal holistically.

~~payal~~

Oh Please!

                                                    2014 image, Pune

 

Shadows are the doorways

To the light.

I wish to

Slide them slightly

Breathe in fresh air

Open my arms

Spread my wings

Turn on the music

Dance and sing

But it’s no fun!

I sit here,

With my overthinking mind....

My head spins,

My back hurts

I feel stuck.

I pop in a tablet

And now..

Oh I feel dizzy.

I want to sleep.

MIGRAINE!

Oh Please leave,

and let me be!

~~payal~~

 Migraine and bad internet connection at the time of UBC is not-so-cool. Now that's a challenge!

A letter # Day 16,OctPoWriMo Challenge,2013

                                                                                                                        2013 image,Goa

     There was a time when we shared

An illusionary world of words,

And lived in that place

With all our heart..

There came a time,

When we shared that place

And thought it was real..

There was a time

When spoken words

Started creating mist

And the world turned hazy..

Then, words that created

A bond and used to fill the void

Had created differences

and started to hurt..

Today is one such day,

When I try to fill the paper

With million  thoughts

That lied dormant 

in the crazy corner

Of my heart’s cave..

Making me restless.

 Few creations

 are left abandoned

By the creator

Like some unfinished thoughts,

That lie in the silent corner

Of some forgotten pages

Of the diary.

There was lots to say,

If only I knew,

You were listening..

Tell me,

Why are the colours

Of the rainbow missing?

Or let it be..

Maybe I’m too lost..

Soaked

In the salinity

Of the dark clouds....!

I didn’t wish to leave

A single word unsaid..

Wish I could have

sealed it with love..

As always!

~~payal~~

Phailin-tanka.. # Day 15, OctPoWriMo Challenge,2013

                                                                                                    2013 image,Panjim

The nature’s fury,

Walls collapsed, trees uprooted.

The dark lords descend..

The devastating cyclone,

Left a trail of destruction.

~~payal~~

Butterflies # Day 6,OctPoWriMo Challenge,2013

                                                                                                   2013 image,Goa

Thoughts.

Exquisite.

From where do they come?

These fluorescent butterflies;

Fluttering their broken wings.

Somehow, I feel them.

When I face;

Truth.

:

:

Dreams.

Illusions.

Reality check.

Banging head against the wall.

I already had enough!

Restlessness seeps in.

Dumbfounded.

Pain.

:

:

Hurt.

Nervousness.

Pure insanity.

A moment of grace bestows.

Clearing the blocks from mind.

Like never before.

Butterflies.

Free...

  ~~payal~~

P.S.  This poem has no rhyme, and is written according to syllable counts. Syllables are 1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 5, 3, and 1