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Electronic pages – Poetry and prose
Poem
The inner workings of my mind
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  1. Nicky Collard
  1. Millview Hospital, Hove, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr James Fallon, Promenade Ward, Millview Hospital, Nevill Avenue, Hove BN3 7HZ, UK; James.fallon{at}sussexpartnership.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010619

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    They say a man with no dreams,

    Is like a film with no theme.

    Void of meaning, lacklustre and dry,

    Like a seagull that can't fly.

    I stagger through life,

    With nothing but strife.

    Feelings of sorrow and pain,

    Fall relentlessly like a Monsoon rain.

    No more powerful evil can I find,

    Than to be imprisoned within my own mind.

    The rare sober moment with feeling so awkward,

    How many more drinks until I am slaughtered.

    Acknowledgments

    Dr James Fallon for submitting this poem to Medical Humanities on behalf of Nicky Collard.

    Footnotes

    • Contributors The poem that is submitted was produced wholly by NC, a patient of the Mental Health Homeless Team in Brighton. NC provided consent for submission to this journal. JF submitted this on behalf of NC.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.