RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Tuesday, February 2

frybread sonnet #023: SOLIDARITY NOT SOLITUDE FOR SELF-MEDICATORS

The not-drinking, not-blurring harsh realities
never gets easier. Life's too fucking real for
too many people, drowning in anxieties
sometimes generations deep, surviving a war

against themselves through medication of self. Souls
stubborn as fuck but spirits feeling week, feeling
out of control, alone, but these internal holes
more dark than safe known by many of us. Peeling

back the layers ain't easy, ever - shit is fucked,
but YOU ARE NOT ALONE, understand that faces
you pass while fogged in your darkness also have tucked
those same worries down to navigate shared spaces -

so many feel out of control but it's never shown;
hold shit together to survive - YOU'RE NOT ALONE

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