Listen to Someone - Svalbard

Days without eating

Days without sleeping

Days without speaking

The nights

Are the hardest

When the voices

Are the loudest

Days without eating

Days without sleeping

Days without speaking

Don’t tell me it’s okay

To not be okay

Then wince at everything I say

Don’t tell me it’s okay

To not be okay

Then wince at everything I say

Then wince at everything I say

Don’t act like a confidant

If you’re just going to get impatient

And make patronising suggestions

It’s not my life that’s the problem

It’s me

Days without eating

Days without sleeping

Days without speaking

If I could fix it like a broken limb

I would

If I could stop these thoughts and start again

I would

I would leap at the chance

But the chance, it does not exist

Some illnesses

They just have no fix

Listen to someone without judgment