A Poem: On living with bi-polar affective disorder

[Faith-and-Hope]

That is excellent @MoonGal ...... 🤗💕

Gotta go paint now ...... 🌈🎨🌷

[Appleblossom]

Lovely to see you around @MoonGal

You just liked something and then I saw this inspiring thread, thanks.

It is called "Almost There"

[MoonGal]

Hi @Appleblossom - thank you for the greeting and beautiful photo! xx

[MoonGal]

Elevator crashed.

to the floor. ground level. Where everything is part of the ordinary department.

Ground floor. Ladies plus sized apparel, medication, and housewares.

just a few days of happy - hypo - not happy.

Thought it was a change in me wrought by the shifting of time.

So truly feel that the change is permanent.

permanent and pervasive in happiness.

then... now...

permanent and pervasive in sadness.

started smoking again while away.

five days driving in car with partner smoking.

still held out.

then at friends for two nights who also smoked.

gave in giving up.

four months I stopped. that was good. 

need my non-smoking mojo back.

partner back at work today.

So I am plunged back into my head and empty home.

she who works so hard for us.

probably feels the same.

plunged back into a job she dislikes but must carry on.

For Us.

So back to the mad housewife.

I must remember this too passes.

Must keep walking every day. 

Making the most of my new body who wanted to move, wanted to stretch wanted to exercise wanted to lose weight.

Now. Today. I must pull into my shell, all my soft bits and just be.

Just be. not reflect on the greynesses of shadows in my mind.

Rainbow bright I call you back to me. 
Bright girl, funny girl, energetic girl.
Come back.

Come back. 

<weep>

Moongal. 

PS: Though I am glad of my doggie daughters....

[Shaz51]

Lovely to see you my sister @MoonGal 

[MoonGal]

On awakening, The crash had passed.
Phew.
Only a moment of Bi-Cycling.

One would think with all that cycling I would be a whippet of a woman instead of a bear. LOL!