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OUT
OF CONTROL
(Read
down left column and then right)
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"Pull
yourself together, dear"
(I've heard it all before
the echoes still reverberate
like breakers on the shore.)
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"And
when you took that overdose
(your face so lined and white)
how could you be so selfish?
You know it wasn't right
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"Why
do you stay in bed all day
why won't you talk to us?
When someone wants you on the 'phone
why make such a fuss?
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"There
there my dear, stop crying
it won't do any good
if only you'd try harder
to do the things you should
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"It's
awfully hard to understand
the changes in your mood
first you're down, and then you're up -
we'd help you if we could
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"We
want you to be happy
you used to be such fun
but you're like another person
since your trouble begun
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"When I'm depressed and weepy,
dear
I don't give
in like you
you must be strong, and fight it;
other have problems too
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"(Why
won't these voices go away
and leave me to my pain?
No one else can understand
The chaos in my brain
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"Don't
reject the children, dear
it really isn't fair
they only ever see you
when you're huddled in a chair
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It's
easy to be critical
When one is sane and well
useless to delineate
this other kind of hell
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"Last
month you wouldn't go to bed
you stayed up night and day -
do you realise how it worries us
when you behave this way?
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Normality
divides us -
and fear of what might be;
shall I ever bridge the gulf
between the world - and me?)
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"We
couldn't get you off the 'phone
you talked and talked for days
why can't you use some self-control
and mend these spendthrift ways?
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Doris
Breingan
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"So strong is your depression
it fills
the house with gloom
hovering in the doorways
it permeates each room
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