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Expression Through Poetry
One of our Salts Medilink® customers started writing poetry following an emergency operation to form a colostomy. A patient of one of our Salts Medilink® Nurses, this gentleman has experienced many difficulties: he was homeless at one stage of his life, has experienced drug and alcohol addiction in the past and has been through a rehab programme. His poetry has really helped him to express his emotions and experiences and he now continues to do well. We would like to thank him very much for sharing these verses with us so we can in turn share to our wider audience.
The music took over my mind
The beat continued in my head
Through the night
The clock ticked on
Lonesome am I
As the world sleeps the night
The long tired darkness
Of the early hours pass by
The first glimpse of light
The sun decides to rise
The world starts to wake up
Leaving their dreams behind
What will the day bring
As the birds sing.
The candle flame dances
Shadows movements
On the walls of reality
A candle of hope for the future
A candle flame for my friends
That have gone
On the hard road of life
I remember them
Now and then
Good times gone by
Sadness in my eyes.
Two years on the streets
Using my wit, eyes and feet
A beggar and a street poet
I went to so many places
They all blur together
So many people characters
Walking, hitchhiking, jumping trains
Many cities, towns, coastlines
Drinkers, junkies dying the slow death
Lost some friends
I know hunger, despair and freedom without a care
Walking down the main drag
On pay day happy and drunk
Hitchhiking home then south again
Up and down the blue vein motorways
The hardest two years
And the best two years of my life
Not knowing what’s down life’s road
Or round the next corner
Walking at night for miles and miles
Under a beautiful star filled sky
Waiting for morning sunlight
Restless in my bones, time to move on again
Seen so many things while drifting
In the systems day dream
A nomadic way of life with freedom in my eyes.
Hello goodbye
A pat on the back
Or a poke in the eye
Have a slice of life’s reality pie
Live die
Smile cry
Walk run fly
In the blue sky
Open your mind
Travel inside
Don’t forget to read the guide
Don’t cross over the fine line
Insanity is what you will find
Naked emotions in the mind
A network of memories
And the passage of time.
