FLY!
You call it “mental health”
I call it joy
I call it art and exploration and being a human “bean”
Growing
Into yourself
I call it liberation.
If you can shed enough tears
And laugh enough giggles
If you can tremble away
Fears and all your old awkwardness
If you have indeed given away enough smiles
Then “mental health” doesn’t come into it
Health is for the body
Scrap those other labels that could bog you down
And I will listen while you shed those tears
And laugh loud those giggles, rage out those wild furies.
And I will not allow you to ever feel alone
And I will not judge or diagnose
I’ll make no attempt to trap you, shut you down
Medicate you stupid or drug you passive
So with your own mind you can run, jump, explore, dance, rebel
And take to your own unique wings.
London, England
(Present Time 203, April 2021)