A Lost Companion

So many years we have spent together,

Crossing fences through stormy weather..

You have guided me when I was lost,

You are with me here as I lay.

When all alone, I always enjoy your company..

Making sense and issuing connections,

Sharing your creativity, reminder of internal calendar..

Ideas of brilliance, an endless wonder..

Heart and soul so intwined with others.

A pleasant greeting from dawn to dusk,

Reminds me of cherished minutes..

Times when every breath, every sigh,

Any action of the day, preserved in delicate beauty.

A mother's wisdom perhaps easing emptiness..

A void which has sucked me dry, a desert within my cavity..

Naked with destitution..the fear of oneself.

The absence of you, the thrill of your gifts,

The joy enflaming every extremity and vein.

Oh, where have you escaped?

I am imprisoned and need you!

Originator of innovation..luminosity unfolding..

Unimaginable radiance invading death's hold,

An umbrella from the rain,

A shelter from the storm.

I found this in an old journal..a poem I wrote in 2001, two years after being diagnosed with Bipolar..I was in a depressive episode, feeling as if I had lost my brain..the brain is the lost companion..hope this helped someone, or at least opened eyes and hearts..perhaps educational :)