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'What Pain?' by Dianne Lowe-Breakfield

12/6/2016

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What Pain?
 
I have run the gauntlet
Every addiction, every emotion,
Every fear and every trust
Has pounded me to my knees.
I made it through the line
With still a few breaths to expend.
Although badly beaten
A few welts still dripping blood.
I lick my wounds and
Prepare for the next
More difficult test of strength
Yet how do I tie all
These random thoughts
Into one flowing idea!
How can I live without blood?
How can I survive without the fire?
No more pills to take it away
Get out of my head
Do not ask me to change
The color of my personality
Simply because you
Desire a lighter shade.
 
Dianne Lowe Breakfield
 
Author Bio
I was born in 1960 with a tremendous love of animals and a natural talent for the written word. I was also born with a mental illness that went undiagnosed for half of my life. I always dreamed of being able to accomplish just as much as someone who does not have to deal with a mental illness. Being a published writer has always been a dream that seemed just out of reach for me until Dreaming Big Publications gave me a chance. I saved thousands of precious animal lives, and now I am a writer. Who would have guessed it?

Several of my poems have been included in an anthology written by several authors who suffer from a mental illness. The book is titled, ‘Person Suit’ and is available on Amazon.

I have two grown daughters, and through them I have six wonderful grandchildren. My husband has two daughters and a son, and his daughters have given us three grandsons so far.
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I live in the country on my family estate, where I ran a non-profit, no-kill animal shelter for ten years and consider this my second greatest achievement only behind my family.
 
1 Comment
Donal Mahoney link
12/6/2016 02:00:54 am

I very much enjoyed reading this poem and it is obvious that you have talent. I have children in your generation and I began writing a few years before you were born. I do hope you do not let your problem with mental illness get you down. I have never been diagnosed with a mental or emotional illness but I have always suspected something must be wrong but decades ago I gave up trying to find out why I am not “quite right.” Three things have made that possible for me—faith in God, a good marriage, and a compulsion to write instead of drink, smoke and engage in other activites that would only make things worse. I am lucky to have grown up when booze and not dope was the problem. I quit drinking and smoking when you were three-years old. Knowing me, I’m certain only the grace of God made that possible. I am no holy roller or preacher but I know why I’m here and where I’m going. This life is but a burp in eternity. Have to stop typing now because I have to feed a feral cat, one of many I have been feeding early every morning for more than a decade while my wife sleeps. The cats cotton to her and put up with me. All life is important and needs must be met. Keep writing and keep submitting to this wonderful site. And other sites as well. Ignore rejections and type into eternity. All the best.

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