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Dark days
Topkitten
Member Posts: 1,263 Pioneering
What is life when the days are dark
When the light's shut out, not even a spark
Of hope gets through and the mind is numb
When life gets squashed between finger and thumb
Is there an answer in how to go on?
The pressure from others and the help not given
Just clouds the mind over and no cloud is riven
By a light shining through and a friendly smile
Just another day to survive for a while
How to survive when life weighs a ton?
Some say there is help always around
And a lucky few always have the sound
Of people to help or parents to show
That there is a life and so they can glow
For some there's an answer in how to go on?
Help though is there for the lucky few
And the rest suffer much and simply chew
On the fact that there is no light in the dark
And hope isn't there, chilling and stark
How to survive when the dark weighs a ton?
Is dark all there is? Is a constant cry
As day after day trudges longingly by
And survival is all that the doctors suggest
And from despair by the ton there is no rest
Why go on?
TK
When the light's shut out, not even a spark
Of hope gets through and the mind is numb
When life gets squashed between finger and thumb
Is there an answer in how to go on?
The pressure from others and the help not given
Just clouds the mind over and no cloud is riven
By a light shining through and a friendly smile
Just another day to survive for a while
How to survive when life weighs a ton?
Some say there is help always around
And a lucky few always have the sound
Of people to help or parents to show
That there is a life and so they can glow
For some there's an answer in how to go on?
Help though is there for the lucky few
And the rest suffer much and simply chew
On the fact that there is no light in the dark
And hope isn't there, chilling and stark
How to survive when the dark weighs a ton?
Is dark all there is? Is a constant cry
As day after day trudges longingly by
And survival is all that the doctors suggest
And from despair by the ton there is no rest
Why go on?
TK
"I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell" - from Wrong side of heaven by Five Finger Death Punch.
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i ask myself that question every day
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I have been waiting since January for Mental Health to "allocate" someone to me but I wasn't informed of this until a week ago when I contacted the Crisis Line just before walking into traffic. It helped but the 'not bothering to tell me' hurt and depressed me, luckily I didn't go through with it. Today's new problems leave me teetering on the edge again because nothing is ever simple. For example.... I just had to fill in an online form to move and there was a question I couldn't answer properly and when I rang for help was told they were all out training despite having spoken to them less than 15 minutes previously. Fyi the question was a choose one from 4 options with the options of permanent wheelchair user, level floor shower, ground floor (cannot cope with stairs) and finally none of the above. I should be a 90% wheelchair user but must have a level shower and be on the ground floor. I've had to put full time wheelchair because it was the best fit for a question set by someone with absolutely no idea what disability can be.
TK