Mental Health Poems

Allusion Poem by The_Writer4

I have a disease that you can not see                                                                                                                     

It's a madness that consumes me.                                                                                                                               

It doesn't matter where I sit because wherever I sat- on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok- I would be sitting under the same bell jar.(1)                                                                 

My disease is far vaster than an itchy forearm and a forgotten meeting. (2) No this was much more incurable.

1. This is a literary reference to the book The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath on page 185.

2. This is a literary reference to the book Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan on page 8.