One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
written by: Maggie Watson
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Looking for a place to
rest from the critical choir (the voices inside
her head).
All she wanted was to be rid
herself of the pain.
So, taking a blade, she
made incisions on her wrist.
Watching the crimson tide
flow onto the tiled bathroom floor,
the release had felt good.
Like an exorcism without the
devil himself.
They took her to a secure
ward and fed her with meds.
She was not off her head or insane,
and she had no wish to die yet.
It was simply a cry for help.
But now they had stuck a label on her,
“mentally unstable.”
Next time she would jump,
at least the death certificate would read, “accidental.”
Maggie was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She now lives in Scotland. She has CFS which is a very debilitating/unpredictable illness. She began writing in 2020 at the start of the Pandemic. At that point, she had no idea it would play such a huge part in her life as it does now! In 2021 she self-published her first collection of poetry and has since self-published three others. Her writing is now much more diverse than when she began. Maggie draws a lot on her life experiences when writing, so her poems can be raw. But she feels that makes her work more relatable to the reader. Maggie is also a volunteer at Barnardo's in UK. She enjoys walks in nature and solo travel.
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