Give A Care

When you suffer… 

some days, some months,

and especially the holidays, the only thing

that offers relief is being under a blanket

in the fetal position. 

those times, you

hide from the world, because no one

gets you. They think you are normal, 
you’re not. You are splitting apart on the inside. 

as you sink more and more into aloneness,

they pass judgement on your actions.

they say insensitive things

like; chill out, take a pill, see a

shrink or they distance themselves.

they think you’re out of character,

they don’t know there is a struggle

going on inside of you, a real struggle

where tears flow and make puddles in

your soul… and nothing works; no Hail Marys,

no affirmations, no nothing.     

you wait for an episode

to pass to get relief, that’s if you are

lucky, cuz for some, relief doesn’t come.

you see the severely affected on the streets 

far gone, listening to the voices in their heads,

sometimes succumbing to them. It’s a

daily struggle that only those feeling 
the ache knows. Give a care.

Sheila’s writing style can best be categorized as Visual Poetry, blending emotion and vision into a poem or story of color. Her poems and short stories are featured at Spillwords Publications, Literary Yard, Cafe Lit magazine.uk, Imspired Magazine and Clarendon House Publications  Poetica 2 and 3. She is a featured poet at PoetrySoup. Her work is also featured in several anthologies and in the youtube series Poetica 2. She was Author of the Month at Spillwords.