Mental Health Awareness Week – One in Three by Laurie Wilkinson

To help raise awareness for Mental Health Awareness Week 2016,  we are using this month’s blog to share a new poem by Eastbourne based poet, Laurie Wilkinson…

 

One in Three

Love and laughter may sprinkle around

With no real problems for you and me,

But we must always be aware of the fate

That will befall every one in three.

 

 

For our lives can change in a trice

When the world sends us a test,

To deal with tragedy, failure or loss

When we are forced to do our best,

To keep our chins up and smile

And face the world with fragile pride,

That may fool many, and maybe you

Until you realise you’re dying inside.

 

As a blackness so dark falls all over you

With no pinprick of light in your pit,

So you blunder about and don’t even try

Whilst every sinew begs you to quit,

And perhaps shuffle off this mortal coil

That right now seems most appealing,

For even if you do try to fight back

You’re overwhelmed by a darkest feeling.

 

Where has all this come from you ask?

But in truth you may never know,

How you are reduced to anxiety tears

And constant feelings of death and woe,

That will affect many now in their lives

As if have swallowed a depressive pill,

For you have become one in the three

Who learn the trauma to be mentally ill.

 

Copyright of My Voice Publishing

 

More about Laurie…

“I am three times now published modern down to earth poet, originally from east London, now living in Eastbourne. I support & fund raise for the charity Help for Heroes, and also donate to them from all my book sales. I am known as “The Psychy Poet Laurie Wilkinson” due to my expansive career in Psychiatry, for which I have a degree. (Forensic Psychiatry)
 
All my three books are in four sections, 1) Romance, 2) Humour, 3) Reflection & 4) Tragedy that encapsulate all of our lives. My senior peers tell me I am extremely fortunate to have the ability to write in such a diverse, spectrum whilst presenting my often “philosophical” poems in my “parable like” down to earth, everyday style. I acknowledge and appreciate this and am extremely proud and passionate about my work.
 
I support the excellent charity Help for Heroes as my son was in the army but fortunately returned home alive and well!”

If you would like to take a look at Laurie’s other work you can contact him on lw1800@hotmail.co.uk or check out Laurie’s Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/The-Psychy-Poet-Laurie-Wilkinson-711361138949469/