The weekly Five Minute Friday word prompt for this week is “talent.”
“Mom, Are you ok?”
You’ve been in bed all day.
Is there anything I can do?
Mom, are you sad?
Are you mad?
Or are you glad?
I want you back
The mom who would play with me
Read to me
Laugh with me
Instead of just lay in bed.
Can a doctor heal you?
Give you medicine to make you feel
So much better.
Some call you crazy
Others call you lazy
But you are neither
You are a beloved child of God!
I love to write. I would call it a talent. My new goal is to write a children’s book about mental illness. This is a very first draft. What do you think? What’s missing?
Tara, this hits close to home…both of my parents were mentally ill, and childhood was a nightmare.
The one thing I would suggest is to make sure that there is no suggestion that a child’s love can be a saving grace, for this is no place for children.
A sonnet was inspired; true but perhaps not too nice.
I called them Whack Jobs at the time,
but perhaps that was too brutal
for mental illness is no crime,
and my anger was, well, futile.
As I child I was sure-bound
(said more accurately, fettered)
and in the sad dark end I found
that I could not make them better.
The played me off against each other
and I learned how to despise
the honorifics, ‘Dad’ and ‘Mother’,
and the scales fell from my eyes
to see that I was all alone.
and I’d have to make it on my own.
Thanks for your recommendations. So helpful.
It’s certainly a start for a much needed book. Kudos for going there.
Thanks!
it feels perfect so far!
Thanks