Featured Poet - K.G. Munro

Featured Poet - K.G. Munro

A FLASHBACK IS A NIGHTMARE IN THE DAY


Bang! A shot of pain unloads 

from a memory long gone 

But the day before feels like today

When your mind is stuck in a bad place


Your brain can't let go of the faces 

The images that feel so fresh

Because the experiences were never 

filed away properly 


So, they are stuck doing reruns in your head 

Every episode feels like a nightmare 

Making your palms sweat and heart hurt 

As the emotions that flood you are imitations 


Of the ones that came before 

Causing you pain when you see triggers 

Dragging you into the past from the present

A flashback is a nightmare you have when you're awake. 


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about suffering from PTSD related flashbacks."


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ENTWINED WITH GLASS SHARDS


Skin breaks with every tear that falls 

You yearn to erase all of your mistakes 

Through every injury that you inflict upon yourself 

Each bleeding mark, a reflection of how hurt

your soul is 

The glass that caged your heart is now

shrapnel covering the floor 

Embedding your hands 

With scars that count the number of days 

You have been suffering in silence 

But physical pain doesn't heal a broken heart 

You are worth more than someone else's definition 

And as sweet as a blooming flower

Entwined with glass shards 

Your cut leaves can still reach the sun

All you have to do is look up.


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about self-harm."


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SWEET DREAMS


For eternity, can't I just sleep?

Exist in a place without constant hardship 

Where I can empty my mind of unpleasant thoughts 

And be someone else, somewhere far from this lifetime 

As my soul falls into the abyss of unconsciousness 

The dreams that follow feel as real as

the cold air in autumn

They are as sweet as condensed milk 

Flowing down my throat as I breathe in my imagination 

Free of anhedonia and released from constant fatigue

I dream of a life

That I can only live when I am asleep. 


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about depression and using sleep to escape life."


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THE SWITCH TURNS


Switch goes on / Switch goes off /

A pattern of volatile emotions

And decisions made under the influence

Of a mind that is out of balance

Turning from light to dark

From hatred to love

It is like two entities inside of one body

The words exchanged are like those from a stranger

Not your father, friend, or sister

With a tsunami of apologies later

Until the switch turns

And repeats the pattern

That is the nature of bipolar.


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about bipolar disorder."


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SHADOW PEOPLE


A smile peels off like a holographic sticker

And the truth is uncovered

Beneath the picturesque illusion

is a broken soul with eyes bruised from crying

gaunt cheeks missing their pink blush

that died with the roses

In their once wondrous viridian garden

From the depths of their mind

that became a torment

A person turned into a ghost

Because that is what we all are

Beneath the pretence of joy and righteousness

We are nothing

But shadows.


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about the veneer that we walk around with being stripped away and revealing the broken human beneath."


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FIXATION


Trying to control everything

That is OCD 

Making you believe that bad things

will happen if you don't obey

Fixation

Compulsion

Repeat

The cycle never is complete

Because your mind hasn't conquered the fear

A deep scar behind the need for certainty

That must be healed not through rituals and repetition

But through meditation and therapy.


ABOUT THE POEM: "This poem is about OCD."



ABOUT K.G.

K.G. Munro is an author and poet from Scotland. Her writing credits include: Indian Periodical, Poetry Potion, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Splendeur Magazine, AThinSliceofAnxiety, Spillwords, Feversofthemind, Friday Flash Fiction, The Poet Magazine, PoetryAsPromised, Scottish Book Trust, and Orange Peel Magazine.

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