There are very many who need therapy these days.
These sensitive people may get counselling sessions
and healing words from a psychologist or psychotherapist;
but less fortunate people need long-term medication.
Some trust in xanax, prozac, diazepam or sertraline,
while others throw these tablets in the bin.
Some find that reading poetryis therapeutic,
while others get a buzz chilling out with pop music.
Some seek help from a health professional:
others are in and out of a priest's confessional.
Some eagerly take up pilates, yoga, older ones tai chi,
learning to breathe and meditate like a maharishi.
Some strive like gymnasts for suppleness and agility
by going to the gym and onto the floor mats then the bar.
Others, like Olympic athletes, go distance running daily,
knowing that it puts 'feel-good'endorphins in the body.
As a doctor said to me once: ' The answer to your problems
will not come out of a bottle'.
-22 March,2017.
Great write. Beautiful presentation. Thanks for sharing....10
You are very generous with your praise and I appreciate that very much. It makes me more confident to write the next poem.
You are right in that these tablets make you drowsy, tired, not your real, best self at all. Each person has to find their own best therapy, I think.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Michael, very good advice! Another 10.
Thanks for your comment. I had not heard from you for a while. Best wishes for your writing too. Michael.