I’ve got this empathic sensitivity
that has an overall effect
on the emergence of mind
within my body
a cognitive life process
that fires
day and night
on all cylinders
I think about
and emotively sense
it seems
everything
often to the point
it feels
outer worldly
and mystical
which leads to mental fatigue
with extreme lows
of depression
a place I call
THE PIT OF DARKNESS
where I have considered
the notion
of suicide
while dwelling in its catacombs
of peril
ironically recuperating
an abnormal notion
I know
for the mindset of society
…. knocking on the door of
mental illness …..
however
despite what the world
outside my mind
may or may not think
or diagnose about my inner world
my struggle with
the downside
of my empathic sensitivity
hopefully
the world will come to see
its upside
its ability to help me
to foresee
the possible consequences
of my actions on others
the perceptivity of being able
to stand in the shoes of
someone else
and sense the direct affect
of my action on them
and alter my course
even if
the act is done to myself ~
like the pull of the full moon
has on the inhabitants of earth
’cause of this gift
I have steadily lived
as a stable
proactive
high functioning
productive
contributory member
of THE HUMAN RACE
….. this gift motivates
the spirit within me
to want to give more
in the service to others
than I want to take from them
to satisfy my needs …..
yes ~ through
the self-acceptance
of me being me
I’ve gotten use to all this …
and the socially embedded
predispositions and inhibitions
associated with
my mental highs and lows
all as a very normal part
of the human being
called me
so to speak ~
my Abnormalities Normality
peace out
Image & Words by ~Keith Alan Hamilton~