“Feeling Alienated” © Edward Michael Supranowicz

 

Unquiet Mind

     Are we alike in that we both have an unquiet mind? If you scold your thoughts out loud when you are alone, maybe we are.

     If you enjoy gazing at the stars because it lets you know there is beauty simultaneously intertwined with disorder, which gives me hope, maybe mine is too.

     If you have figured out the hard way to never back your enemy into a corner, and being loyal sometimes means being wrong in dire situations, I know it too.

     Never forget that your friends talk just as badly about you when you are not around, just as they talk about their other friends when they are gone. What makes you any different?

     If you get the gist of what I said, I regret that you do not understand what it is like to let your mind rest and reset, and that no one understands that the past bitters your truth.

 

Luke Howard: “I have lived my poetry, it is my life in words.I live with bi-polar ‘disorder’ and a myriad of other health maladies. My hope is that my poetry will help someone understand they are not alone in this world and they are understood. My dog (Melvin) and writing keep my sanity in reach.”

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.