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Understanding the Invisable

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Maggers
Maggers

If you fibro folk can bear another thought on today's society!   Written after a comment from a friend - made me think how many folk out there are misunderstood.   Called No Spots.

No spots, no scars, no walking frame

No cast, no splints or bandages

And so she is not entitled to consideration or a kindly word

A shirker, hypochondriac.

Fatigued she said

We all get tired

It’s more than that she cried

I’m numb, exhausted, foggy brained

Blind in one eye.

But still no visible reason for her laziness

Believing her to be

A benefit cheat as the papers say

For all of us to see.

She limps sometimes and then forgets

Or so it seems to them

They have no comprehension 

One day fine another not to suit her they believe

If only they would take the time to see what is

Underneath

And understand the nature of her ills

 but quick to judge they are

Their accusations and their gossip

Eventually reach her ears

She can take no more  and an

Overdose finds her on the floor.

Guilty neighbours rally round

If only we had known

We could have helped her cope they cried

And now, well what of now

 community rallied round and we find

A caring happy neighbourhood where

Side by side man and woman stand

United to the cause

To treat as would be treated one and all.

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  • chickabee
    chickabee Maggers

    Posted

    Oh you have hit the nail right on the head Maggers.  Well done you!

    Words like this tumble out when there is heart-felt empathy...and suffering on a personal level methinks.

    A valued input.

    Chickabee

    • Maggers
      Maggers chickabee

      Posted

      Thanks. I cannot think fast enough when the incidents happen but have to reflect and put my thoughts down on paper.  Good old fibro fog is to blame I think.
  • TeresaJS
    TeresaJS Maggers

    Posted

    You've began  metamorphosing pain into poetry and I bow to you. 

    To you all I leave here Rashani Rea's

     

    The Unbroken

    There is a brokenness

    out of which comes the unbroken,

    a shatteredness

    out of which blooms the unshatterable.

    There is a sorrow

    beyond all grief which leads to joy

    and a fragility

    out of whose depths emerges strength.

    There is a hollow space

    too vast for words

    through which we pass with each loss,

    out of whose darkness

    we are sanctioned into being.

    There is a cry deeper than all sound

    whose serrated edges cut the heart

    as we break open to the place inside

    which is unbreakable and whole,

    while learning to sing.

  • Bee70
    Bee70 Maggers

    Posted

    Once again....so so true ! wink x
  • anne90395
    anne90395 Maggers

    Posted

    Hello Maggers,

    What a beautiful piece of writing. I think you have so hit the nail on the head, a rare talent.

    Take care, Anne

  • Meg53
    Meg53 Maggers

    Posted

    Maggers you are definitely a poet laureate  🌠 in the making. Thank you for bringing poetry back into my life.

    Meg

      🌺

  • bronwyn97278
    bronwyn97278 Maggers

    Posted

    Oh Maggers;   how true, and isn't it the way?  I once worked with a girl (well we were young then), and I Didn't even know she suffered from severe depression:   I thought she was a really lovely person, and loved working with her, she was always caring to her patients, liked to learn anything New when she came to work with me in the ED, and then all of a sudden, she was moved back to the wards....when I asked "why?"...the response was "political reasons", which I couldn't understand....then when I saw her Death notice in the papers, everyone said  "of course it was sudden...she committed suicide...she was depressed"....it hit me b...hard......I wished I'd made a Bigger Stand...and it has taught me (hopefully) to Try and get people to open up, but still find there are some that just don't know how????  How do we help those?  Maybe I should start this in a New discussion?
    • Maggers
      Maggers bronwyn97278

      Posted

      You were young how were you supposed to know. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I think the answer is before one judges another's actions think and engage brain before speaking.  I was always told God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen twice as much as you speak.  Sometimes depression is hidden quite skillfully by the sufferer.  How many times have you heard people say "well I never knew so and so had xyz".In a busy world perhaps we are all guilty of being too wrapped up in our own problems to see the suffering of anyone else.   I try to smile/speak to one person I do not know every day.  Who knows that one smile or word could make all the difference to that person's day.
    • bronwyn97278
      bronwyn97278 Maggers

      Posted

      Thanks maggers; this I have learn't too (my kids are always saying that "I talk to Everyone".....say it takes us soooo long to get through our day/s out......Bron
    • chickabee
      chickabee Maggers

      Posted

      This one is a keeper...and one to share daily with whomever God places in our path...love it!

      Chickabee

    • kaz_40
      kaz_40 bronwyn97278

      Posted

      Hi bronwyn I suffer really bad with depression its not always easy to talk about as where I live their is alot of stigma to do with depression. one of the gps at our surjury dissmisses it wount here of it. I went with my husband to the drs he had a break down to do with work. with having depression myself I know all the signs. the only appointment we could get was with this 1 dr. he totaly dismissed my husband. I was so angry I demanded another appointment with the gp that I normally see, I got him into see her, she signed him of work for 2 week put him on antidepressents and asked to see him again 2 weeks later. alot of gps dismiss depression and say it doesnt exist. my heart goes out to people that have it and how we are sometimes treated.
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