Page 11 - Poems by Alyson Malach - Childhood to Adulthood

All this thinking

All this thinking messing up my mind.

I don’t mind thinking, but not thinking of this kind.

Some�mes I don’t want to think but my thoughts take control.

For in my life my thoughts play a significant role

I think about the future, I dream about the past.

How long will I go on like this, how long will this thinking last?

I do not want to be serious; it makes me so depressed.

But what can I do? If, by my thoughts I am obsessed.

If only I could sort my feeling out, find out what’s wrong.

Let lose all my emo�ons that I have kept so long.
Isn’t there an easier way to put my mind at rest?

An examina�on, just a simple test

I keep on trying to sort it out and try to put things right,

Then and only then will I stop crying when I go to bed at night.

Alyson: Aged 13

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