Peace Poem

This is my poem on promoting INNER peace, and the struggle to accept inner peace in a person fighting a mental illness.  It’s about my struggles with an anorexia nervosa, depression, and borderine personality disorder… but it is about far more, it is about the silent killer that plaguese every demographic....

 Battleground

I have a secret but if I tell you

I'm afraid you would leave as they always do

I can try to explain in a few words

‘I’m fighting for hope in a lost world’

 

You may see no reason to be fighting

And it’s sad to say, but sometimes I see no reason for living

I’m constantly fighting the demons inside

I’m begging for them to rest so I don’t have to hide

 

 You can’t understand…

There is war around every corner

But I live in a land

There there is no one but this loner

A girl who cries at her own reflection

A girl who begs the voices to stop

A girl who starves for perfection

 

… Breathe….

 

This is the world I live in

A never ending battleground

Of voices telling me I will never be good enough

Voices of all the people who have hurt me

Voices of all the pain inside me

Yes, they can talk, they can even scream

Sometimes they are so loud

That I forget how to whisper…

 

“Please be quiet”

“Let me sleep”

“I want to make it through tonight

Without giving in to the war I keep

Bottled up inside

I pray for inner peace”

 

 

My college is hosting a poetry contest and I thought I might enter something if I did well enough.  This is my first draft, what do you think?  It probably still needs some more work though.