Excellent Written for the Mental Health Awareness Week contest Dancing - For Me by hullabaloo22 Mental Health Awareness Week contest entry

I used to be dancing for me, not you. A form of expression, a primal scream, when emotions took total control over me and the words... they refused to show. I’d pick out the track and tune in to the beat and only when my submersion was somewhat complete would I let myself go and give in to the feelings that moved me from my head to toe. I used to be dancing, a private affair, and then you were spying and laughing and aping my moves. Each second of torment a shovel of dirt dumped onto the coffin of my now dead form of expression. I used to be dancing but you stole that away. Maybe one day like a vampire rising that urge will revive that somehow against all the odds it’s survived I’ll find the sense of self I’ve lost You never allowed me to state how much your jeering cost. I used to be dancing for me and never for you. Author Notes A 42 line free form poem. All of it is completely true. Picture: Leon Liu from Unsplash.

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