It’s World Mental Health Day, so …
SNAP OUT OF IT
Snap out of taking orders
Snap out of blame
Snap out of ‘disorders’
Snap out of shame
Snap out of austerity
Snap out of stressors
Snap out of poverty
Snap out of pressures
Snap out of ‘raising awareness’
and start raising hell
This system’s sick
It isn’t well
GET A FUCKING GRIP
Clench your fists and bite your lip
Never let your clown face slip
Get a grip on broken minds and
Ask yourself what is breaking them
Get a grip on that banner pole
On that placard stick
Stop the traffic
Shout and kick
Take my tip
Get a grip
CALM DOWN
Chill out
Never spit your pill out
Chin up, toughen up, man up
Pull every little thing you can up
Raise your hand up
Make your point and stand up
FFS, PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER
Pull our allies together
Pull our demands together
Pull our hands and arms together
Pull together all our resources
Our battling and campaigning forces
Solidarity forever
Pull ourselves together
This poem was published on Poetry24 on 11 October 2017.
