WARNINGS: depression, mentions of suicide/self-harm, anxiety, mental illness/disorder 

My mind is my safe place 

No one can reach me there

Where all my secrets hide

It is also my prison 

The one place I cannot escape 

The ball and chain on my figurative ankle 

My mind keeps me awake 

Late into the night 

Walking through every possibility 

Of what the next day holds 

At the same time 

It condemns  me to sleep 

When it refuses to run 

When the world is too much 

It holds me in the fake death 

Of slumber 

My mind saves me 

It keeps me sane 

Keeps me moving 

Doesn't let me harm myself 

Even when I feel like 

That might be my only option 

My mind betrays me 

When it won't produce the answers I need 

And when it allows the dark thoughts 

To run to the front 

And grab my attention 

My mind is my savior 

And my torturer 

It is many things 

But the one thing it will always be 

The single constant 

In an ever changing environment 

Is that it is 

Mine 

And no one can take that from me