All-Or-Nothing Thinking

For what reason this all-or-nothing thinking?
Too hot, too cold,—but never in the middle
I live, a victim of this ruthless riddle
that contradicts reply (and has me sinking!?).

This anarchy of mind that's got me drinking
is never gray, but too much or too little
like a deranged, mad instrument, a fiddle,
that counterpoints a melody without blinking.

Unlike my thinking, life's not black or white
but somewhere in the middle, where insane
poor souls escape manic, psychotic thoughts
like refugees from their depressive plight,
a Scylla and Charybdis that won't drain
the swirling stream of mania's onslaughts.




Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2020-07-11 at 03:35

Tags Bipolar  Scylla  Charybdis 

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Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
I think that this is your best poem, so far. The one line, "I'll know, see, and sense my world in a way," is a real gem.
2020-07-13