I will not be labeled
As damaged or disabled
I won’t let myself think
I’ll just go down like
Water gurgling in a sink
I try to envision my life
With more purpose
Than “useless”
Sometimes this is
An exercise
Quite fruitless
I won’t slide down
That gurgling sink
And I know that’s what
A lot of people
Think
But I’ve proved them
Wrong before
Not just once
But even more
I won’t quietly go down
That gurgling sink
I have more words
To say
More words
I must ink
I’m not here
To kick up a stink
I just want to make
More people think
Before I go down
That gurgling sink
Kait King 12th July 2019
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This is beautiful and inspiring!!!
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Thank you so much!🙏🌻🙂✌
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This is inspiring
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Thank you🙏🙂
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Writers and artists have so much to give before they go down the plughole 9even though it sometimes feels like we have to cling on with our fingernails xx
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Haha!😂 Yes, at least the good thing about writing is you can do it well past your retirement, I’m sure!! This poem was more about being physically handicapped or disabled, but I love your perspective too😁 It just shows how everybody has a different view. Excellent and thank you!🙂🙏
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That is why as a psychologist I called those who came to see me Clients, not patients. I believe that tagging someone helps them to hold onto the belief they are sick.
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I think it’s a personal thing, whether you want to repeatedly be counseled and heal from picking things over or struggle with acceptance maybe, but for me, personally, I heal or deal with it by shutting it down. It doesn’t do me well to keep reliving the trauma or grief. I’m glad you called your people clients not patients either, it all helps to stem that “victimized” feeling of not being good in the world. There are so many people affected in the world but we don’t all have to be sick because of it, but instead become strong!🙏🙂
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Absolutely! It’s that old self-fulfilling prophecy 🙏🙂
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Am drowning..with this…
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Uh oh….😲
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