EXTREMES

I feel full of zip, vim and vigour

Full of new hope and stimulation, verve and go

It feels like something’s gone right for a change

A sweet moment of positive notes

Someone took an interest

Somebody took time to care

They wanted to know what I had been doing

And it felt just right and quite fair

So I skipped and I danced round my mind for a while

And told myself things would be fine

I feel defeated and deflated

Like an empty balloon caught in a cactus tree

It all feels like it’s gone wrong just the same

As it always does when I get hope

Nobody took any interest

No-one really seemed to care

And the same sick and familiar cycle

Came calling again with despair

And I crashed and I burned as I always seem to

Plunged back into the dark of my mind

Martin A W Holmes, July 2015