Biographical Poetry posted January 29, 2015


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A light-hearted look at my depression( read notes)

A Big Nut

by patcelaw


A Big Nut

Before I first became
ill with depression
I bottled things up
didn't stand
my ground when offended.
I took undeserved abuse.
verbal abuse
but none the less hurtful
the pressure got to me
and I blew.
The illness is nothing more
than a chemical imbalance
in my brain.
With proper medications
I am sane 90% of the time.

The other 10%
where I am not sane
It is because I was born
into a family of nuts,
as a matter of fact,
there is a squirrel that
thinks I am a nut
and keeps trying
to nibble at my ear.
He is wanting to take me
to his nut bin
for winter food,
but I am too darn big
to carry in one piece
So he is just taking
a little bit at a time.

-Patricia Lawrence



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Free verse light hearted look at the depression of which I have suffered from for almost 30 years. When depressed I have to laugh to keep from crying.
I had a nephew who stayed with me for several months when he was 7 years old. He came home one day with a card he had made for me at school that day and it was addressed to anut Pat, He just flipped the letters in aunt. I found it so funny. I laughed because he did not know how close he was to the truth. I can be a nut at times.
That nephew died suddenly just 3 month before his 42nd birthday.
He and I talked about the card he had made me several times and when I would send him a message on e-mail I would sign it Anut Pat
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