The current Covid-19 restrictions have given many of us more time to explore our talents and three members have illustrated their creative side and wish to share their poems with everyone in GROW Mental Health Recovery
I Thought a thought
I watched a cloud drift overhead
so clear and true
Sunlit, silent in skies as blue
As a painters palette
And wondered
if I could think thoughts
as clear and true I could paint skies
of any hue
I would know
that hearts beat in time
To nursery rhymes and the ebb and flow
of Nature’s tides
That sunflowers
like the sun do not
pick or choose, but share their glory
with everyone
To know these thoughts
I could sit at creations’ feet
Filled with joy
Filled with Peace
I thought a thought
- Paul, Raheny
Loneliness
Lonely feelings fill me up inside.
Being so disconnected from Friends and Family make my world feel so empty inside.
Being stuck day in day out, I turn to my creative side to make my days feel alive.
Gratitude and hope are pulling me from the darkness and into the light.
For one day in the future, I know in my heart things will be okay again.
The lonely feelings that once filled me up inside, will be replaced by joy and happiness as I will have my Friends and Family at my side.
- Barry Smith
To Grow is to Love
To grow is to love
to grow is to heal
To grow is to know
that you are real
To grow
is to lay your burdens down
The ones that press you
to the ground
To grow
is to walk the lonely mile
and know that it is
All worthwhile
To grow
is to plant a tiny seed
And help it grow
above the weeds
To grow
is to open up your heart
and find that sharing
lights the path
To grow
is to wonder at the sight
of daytime growing
out of night
To Grow is to love
to grow is to heal
To Grow is to know
that you are real
- GROW member