The following poem has been featured in the anthology Please Hear What I'm Not Saying. According to the editor's site, the antholgoy has so far fundraised over £400 to mental-health charities such as MIND and The Joshua Nolan Foundation. I am grateful to have been giving an opportunity to be part of such an amazing project. I will hope to find time to review the book in the near future.
Editor Isabelle Kenyon sent the image with permissions to share.
A Raging Storm
Been floating in the sea of life
blind to the dangers
of the water.
Until one day
a storm got too wild,
tempests raged, riling up the waves -
a tsunami over my head.
And I’ve been drowning ever since,
breathless under water,
but somehow
still alive.
Body starving for nourishment
a soul void of happiness,
I continue to linger,
mindlessly carried away
with the currents of the ocean.
One day I will be gone
or else washed up on a shore,
both scenarios better
than endlessly drowning in sorrow.
Welcome to the Sombre Days
Welcome to the Sombre Days is my recently published poetry collection, available both as paperback on Amazon and ebook on Kindle. The poems are also being posted on the Steem blockchain – here are the latest ones I have shared: