Poems

WELLBEING

My Body

I didn’t ask for you to betray me. Yet, I want you to hear my plea.
Please stop putting me through this as you make me want to flee.
I’m scared of these feelings, and their meanings. They twirl inside me leaving me with emotional dealings.
I don’t like this feeling of helplessness, that I’m going out of my mind. Searching for answers that I cannot find.
My body is supposed to nurture me, help me through life. But lately, you have been putting me through strife.
My mental state is broken all it sees is fear. Fear of the shakes, sickness, and the way my heart rears. I want you to protect me, but you have let me down. You have taken control and made me drown. Don’t even get me started on how many tears I have cried. You stole them from me causing me to become tongue tied.
I buried who I was under the anxiety I felt, cut myself off because I thought that was the cards I had been dealt. I got used to the way you took over, letting myself become the pushover.
I need to find my balance again, to gain the knowledge that I glossed over. You took it all causing me to fall. Now, I’m ready to stand tall.
I’m ready for the battle to change the way I think. To find the healing that I seek. Be it spiritual, physical, mental, or emotional, I’m determined to bring you back into my clique.
Listen to me as I roar, my body will become my temple again once more.