CAUGHT COPING

It’s hard being chemically dependent,

Maintaining a good profile…

To cope with the moods descendent

If one’s pills are forgotten a while!

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It’s harder being a Christian when

Not being healed implies less faith…

One learns to not mention it,

In certain circles to play it safe.

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Mood swings require patience

From friends, associates and wife…

Until one finds efficacious

Treatment to last a life.

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Be kind to us who struggle,

Daily needing  legal drugs…

We’d like to please those we snuggle

Without the diffident shrugs!

–Jonathan Caswell