What am I doing here?
I would ask myself time and again
Sitting by your bed
No god would Amen
Day after day, month after month
I would pray twice a day that your sorrow would end
you fought and you fought and would not ascend
I could not understand, till I would be your friend
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I stood in a room
There was so much gloom
surrounded by strangers
and unspoken dangers
All the men and the women in this room were lost
For all the folks here some line had been crossed
‘Behavioral ward’ was what it was called
If you ended up here, you would be appalled
For I directed myself to the ‘psych ward’
with my brother whom I completely adored
To celebrate his 52ed trip around the sun
As my heart swelled with cheer a sweet song begun
I hit the call button and waited
With breath that was baited
Outside the psyche ward
For the brother I adored
The nurse finally came
But I was not quite the same
As I was the last time I was there
I was given quite a scare
By a girl with a different name
Seven years ago
A woman I used to know
Love cannot measure
How much I did treasure
This girl who changed my life so
