Mental Health Alphabet – Written Wednesday 27th August 2025 (Aged 50)

Mental Health Alphabet

Mental health alphabet.
Well-being chapters,
sadness letters,
anxiety sentences,
worry,
or paragraphs of worry.
Underlined
by worry lines,

Mental health alphabet.
Here it is
for us to understand,
or is it for us to fix,
to heal,
or to mend?
If so,
the surgical instrument
is just a pen.

Mental health alphabet,
well-being words,
grammar,
life,
societal stammer,
my fear,
an excellent hammer.

To express
or one to hide,
to shout
or to be honest,
or even maybe
to lie.

To heal
or to mend,
caught in the flow,
the blunt instrument
that is my daily pain.

James Garratt – 27th August 2025

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