POETRY AS THERAPY

POETRY AS THERAPY

If you ask me why I do this

Herding words to place them here

I’m finding it simply therapeutic

Poems make my mind more clear

I’m less angry of an evening

Blurting all that raw pain out

Writing poetry as therapy

Far better than needing to shout

I’m not trying to sell my words

I’m not trying to sell myself

The best thing about this therapy

Is I’m just doing it for itself

I’m less angry in the office

Festering poison gets unraged

My dreadful poetry is therapy

When it’s splashed out on a page

So you ask me why I do this

Questions come as some surprise

Even if no-one bothers to read them

Just writing poetry satisfies

I’m more contented with this life

As thinking can be quite visceral

Writing poetry as therapy’s

Far better than cures medicinal

Lose those ideas of perfection

Lose all those dreams of wealth

See if bad doggerel as therapy

Is good for your mental health

Martin A W Holmes, October 2016