Take care of your mental health

( yesterday was mental health day, therefore this poem)

Take care of your mental health, everyone tells you

No one else can do it, you know that’s true

Preserve your stamina, your sanity, sleep well at night

Be grateful for everything in life that is right

You have so many blessings in life, all you have to do

Is eat healthy, get sleep and exercise regularly too..

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All of the above does constitute good advice

But you feel like being unable to adhere to it is a vice

It makes you feel worse, as you erroneously conclude

That you are the only one with lack of fortitude

To lift yourself up from the trenches of mental health issues

You wonder what it would be like to be in their shoes

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Mental health does not in a vacuum reside

To have to figure out everything alone should not be a matter of pride

Make genuine connections with people and see

Your mental health parameters improve significantly

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We are all a little broken, and we need

Each other to fill up our cracks indeed…