Therapy Poem
By Michael Walker
There are very many who need therapy these days.
These sensitive people may get counselling sessions
and healing words from a psychologist or psychotherapist;
but less fortunate people need long-term medication.
Some trust in xanax, prozac, diazepam or sertraline,
while others throw these tablets in the bin.
Some find that reading poetryis therapeutic,
while others get a buzz chilling out with pop music.
Some seek help from a health professional:
others are in and out of a priest’s confessional.
Some eagerly take up pilates, yoga, older ones tai chi,
learning to breathe and meditate like a maharishi.
Some strive like gymnasts for suppleness and agility
by going to the gym and onto the floor mats then the bar.
Others, like Olympic athletes, go distance running daily,
knowing that it puts ‘feel-good’endorphins in the body.
As a doctor said to me once: ‘ The answer to your problems
will not come out of a bottle’.
