Hello All,
I love this community, and often feel that I take more than I give. I just wanted to start a thread where we could all share the gifts that we often have as part of our disorder. For some it is drawing, art, creativeness, music....for me I dabble in Poetry. Please share what your gift is, and together we can not only see our affliction, but some of the richness it brings into our lives

I have bipolar, to me it's a curse
But then I found others that do have it worse.
The road I walk slowly, is lonely, its cold and its stark,
Crashing and Colliding, my thoughts after dark.
My moods can be low, like in the depths of hell,
and if there's a bottom, I honestly cannot tell.

Yet manic I can be, so wonderfully high
Like climbing a cloud, on wings I do fly.
My thoughts are all mine, so crystallized and clear,
When I am like this, I love life, to me it's so dear.

So depressed and then manic I do venture to go
Where I will be, no one could possibly know.
But on this long journey to not be alone
Are some of my friends, to me they have grown.

So please take this journey, this path stick by thee
Together we sojourn, then soon you will see.
This contrast it leads me, I'm slaved by it -not free
I'm just a little crazy, this person, this me

Blitter 8/03/15