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.

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