The inner workings of my mind
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* Nicky Collard

*   Mental health care

> They say a man with no dreams,
> 
> Is like a film with no theme.
> 
> Void of meaning, lacklustre and dry,
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> Like a seagull that can't fly. 
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> I stagger through life,
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> With nothing but strife.
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> Feelings of sorrow and pain,
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> Fall relentlessly like a Monsoon rain. 
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> 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.