Hi everyone and welcome to my 34th Haiku Hope – part of the COPE campaign bundle of creative distractions.
This time I thought I’d write about ‘the voice’.
Sounds ominous, I know, but research shows that we all have an internal narrative, the problem is it’s either welcome or unwelcome, helpful or unhelpful, kind or worryingly sinister. The quality and content of your internal voice can mean the difference between sanity and having a version of psychosis, and I’ve experienced both.
It’s typical for me to find the lines blurred these days. Paranoia that the more sinister voice will return sometimes makes me question my own thoughts. Thankfully, in a Descartes kinda way, cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), and knowing I can have that thought alone helps me stop the paranoia and put aside the less welcome comments in my brain.
This haiku is dedicated to the way I feel when that paranoia creeps in.
Annoyed mostly, I guess.
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The voice
They think you’re stupid.
Why does my mind tell me this?
But who’s talking now?
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Remember if you need more distractions then there are more jokes on my Hold Humour page, as well as haikus on Haiku Hope, awful poems on Crap Poems and odd language in Weird Words. I also have a page dedicated to stress hacks and other ideas to try if you need a distraction within the COPE campaign section of this website.
Thanks for visiting.
Creative Steph 