I’m not planning on taking a shower
though it would make me feel better
I don’t think I’ll comb my hair
though it could make me feel better
I might not brush my teeth
though it might make me feel better
I don’t want to go out of the house
though it will make me feel better
I don’t want to see friends
though it can make me feel better
I don’t want to exercise
but it shall make me feel better
Mental health note
a depressed brain
doesn’t want to
anyhow
so don’t
wait
for the
want
just
do
and be gentle
So
today
I’ll visit
a friend who
is healthy to be around
I’ll go there on my bike
and buy fresh bread to enjoy
So
my hair
is combed
and i pledge to you
I will brush my teeth (soon)
I repeat
a depressed brain
doesn’t want to
anyhow
so don’t
wait
for the
want
just
do
and be gentle
This poem may grow over time, if I find new important things to add to it. Feel free to contribute to it, build on it, make it your own. Yesterday I read poetry shouldn’t be therapy. That’s great advice to create good poetry. But today, I want to reverse it. I don’t need to write a great poem. I need inspiration to get healthy behaviour done instead of postponed. As procrastination coach, I work from the motto ‘by any (healthy) means necessary. If a poem does the job, let the job get done.
If you decide to build on it, please leave a link. I’d love to read it!
By the way, the prompt for NaPoWriMo day 10 was a very different one, on using local weather vocabulary. Instead I aimed for ways to improve my personal weather. I didn’t want to add another rainy poem to the gloomy ones I’ve written already… This poem is building on yesterdays one, called Things that fail to deliver.
Love this Angela!
Thanks! And I did brush my teeth 🙂 And decided I’ll walk to my friend instead of cycle. I’ll be really tired, but it’ll have more effect.
Yay!
Well done you!
And we meditated together, and her cat came sit on my lap when we did that. It was a great choice, and it made me feel better.
A reality check version, because some days ‘better’ is just way out of reach:
Things that could deliver
I’m not planning on taking a shower
though it would make me feel less worse
I don’t think I’ll comb my hair
though it could make me feel less worse
I might not brush my teeth
though it might make me feel less worse
I don’t want to go out of the house
though it will make me feel less worse
I don’t want to see friends
though it can make me feel less worse
I don’t want to exercise
but it shall make me feel less worse
Mental health note
a depressed brain
doesn’t want to
anyhow
so don’t
wait
for the
want
just
do
and be gentle
So
today
I’ll visit
a friend who
is healthy to be around
I’ll go there on my bike
and buy fresh bread to enjoy
So
my hair
is combed
and i pledge to you
I will brush my teeth (soon)
I repeat
a depressed brain
doesn’t want to
anyhow
so don’t
wait
for the
want
just
do
and be gentle
This reminds me of these poems I wrote at the very beginning I started to write poetry.
And WHO said that poetry shouldn’t be therapy? Poetry should make you feel, so… of course it is therapy!
I LOVE this poem. And it speaks to me in so many ways. I love the way you spread it on the page too, like a call and answer.
I don’t want to clean the house
though it would make me feel better
I don’t want to read
Though it would make me feel better
I don’t want to paint,
Though it would make me feel better
I don’t want to work
Though it would make me feel better
Or less worse, really,
it’s a demanding job.
Lots of love. LOTS OF LOVE!
❤
Yes, those too! And thank you ❤
I had meant to link, but then… life happened! HEre are the two posts I was talking about.
https://wordpress.com/view/dawnsnight.wordpress.com
https://wordpress.com/post/dawnsnight.wordpress.com/26
I like the patchwork illustration to the words. Indeed, one step at a time is a victory, one patch on the quilt of life. It doesn’t need to be perfect or symmetrical. (K)
Personal weather is the only one that counts. I wish you gentle doing. Bread and bike and friend – excellent!
oh. i know this poem. ~
I wish you didn’t 🙂 <#
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