T-Jay's Poem

[tjay76]

This was inspired by John Davidson's 2009 Documentry as John wanted 'one measly day' without symptoms, and Greg did have one such day.

I hope and pray for a perfect day,
A day with no shaking,
A day with no swearing,
A day with no Twitching,
That would be a perfect day.

I hope and pray for a perfect day,
A day with no obsessions,
A day with no compulsions,
A day with no rtualistic actions,
That too would be a perfect day.

I hope and pray for a perfect day,
A day with no coprolalia,
A day with no echolalia,
A day with no paliphenomena,
That also would be a perfect day.

I haven't had a 'perfect day' for 12 years now,
12 years of depression,
8 years od distorted sleep,
2 years of of OCD,
10 months of Tourette's Syndrome.

These are my days now,
All I want is one day
I hope and pray for that day.

Jeez - I have just read it - I think yesterday was a 'bad day!'

[twinmum]

Its really good T-jay
There are a few other poems on here have you seen them? perhaps one day someone will put them all in a book.

[tjay76]

I did read them, hense the reason why I posted my poem.

I did however have problems with my 'Latin Verse', getting my symptoms AND the latin to stay in the flow of the stanza (OMG College/Uni speak!!!!!) was a bit of an issue!!

[Devon]

Thanks for the poem TJay, I read it out to a friend and I had tears in my eyes, it brought back so many memories. If I could take it away from all of you I would do it today, but then I guess we would not be such brilliant caring wonderful loving people, just dull normal ones.

[George]

this poem is great it really makes me think