Smiling then you frown
Happy then you’re sad
Opposing genes
Penultimate extremes
Jumping in the sand
Drowning while you stand
Unpredictable mood swings
Euphoria on trivial things
Feeling like a switch
Inexplicable rapid speech
Singing ’til tomorrow
Dancing when you see the rainbow
Normal as you look
Symptoms overlooked
As the stringing of the beads
No one can easily read.
Drinking alcohol
Thoughts you can’t control
Biting all its toll
After that spiral fall
Crying out for help
Medicines will never melt
The stigmas that you see
Loud as a wailing banshee.
Indifference to the sting
Love and Understanding
Acceptance is the key
It might happen to you and me.
Kindly Click This and Read Snowing Summertime. Thanks.
Copyright © 2015 Joys of Joel by Joel F. All Rights Reserved.
Joys of Joel 
I understood this completely! Awesome piece!
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Thanks Carisa.
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I have been there. Not exactly in your shoes obviously. It is such a powerful post. I have been taking and not taking med for s so long I wonder whatever happened to my highs. More low days than high but I have to live and after reading this piece I sense the pain you go through and I wonder if I was ever really Bipolar. It doesn’t help that my main diagnosis is Chronic Anorexia with an emotionally unstable personality disorder with elements of Bipolar. I think my psychiatrist got poetic when he diagnosed me – elements of BP disorder – Anyway enough about me. Beautifully expressed. Why is it some of our greatest pieces of writing are about pain and what we have to go through? Great piece Joel
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Thank You Daisy in the Willows. Truthfully, i’m not bipolar.
I wrote this poem because it reminds me of a friend who suffers from the disorder. She committed suicide by jumping off the building several years ago.
A month before her death anniversary, I woke up from a dream, seems like she’s sending me a message and i decide to write this piece.
I published this in wordpress last year.
Thank You Daisy for taking time to read. I appreciate it, you dropping by.
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Joel, you are a true poet 🙂
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Thank you Paola for your kind words. I’m not really a poet, i just write from the heart.
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Yes, very sad. A lot of misunderstood people.
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Thanks Marissa for always reading my post.
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Spiral is the perfect title, Joel. The poem does feel like an emotional whirlwind. Wonderfully written and poignant.
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Thanks D. Wallace.
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