My Award-Winning Poem.

This is one of the poems I am most proud of. It actually won first place in a poetry competition, which meant a lot to me. I wrote it during a time when I was experiencing psychosis, so the themes are intense, emotional, and a bit paranoid- especially around authority and government. It’s a very raw and honest piece that reflects what I was going through at the time. I hope you find something in it that speaks to you.

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"Authoritarian"

Patronise us, lucid superiority

We, the proletariat beg of you

Bind us with your excruciating faux details

Convince us we stand a chance

Order us to tie your justice laces

Blindfolded with envy

And credit yourself- pity absent

A price to pay for freedom

No matter how transient

Drag us through rubble and contemplate

Loosening the reigns, promising you will

Without ever taking action

Or rewarding compensation

Instead encouraging us to lock the

Rusty bars of our neurological cells

Patronise us, tyrannical authority

We, the proletariat beg of you

Chain our legs and arms to posts of liberty

Convince us there is no irony

In what we are told to believe

Command us to celebrate the nation you dictate

Whilst feeding us little understanding

Of what we have become

Just sharpen us like daggers

Load our arms with fire

Fuelled by your propaganda

Your deceit, your ego, your delusions

Of grandeur over the humankind

Your thirst for money and control

That will never quite be fully satisfied

Patronise us, like the dictator you are

And send us proletariat slaves

Blindly

To our graves.