POEMS UNDER GRADUATE

Comfort -A psychiatrist’s dilemma

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Volume 12 Issues 1 January, 2022 

Dr Chandrima Naskar, Senior Resident, Psychiatry PGIMER, Chandigarh

Is there some comfort in hearing voices

that others can’t hear?

Some comfort in that twisted posture

of catatonia?

Is there some comfort in searching for ways

to let go of your life from your body?

Is there some comfort in the storms

of euphoria and rage

that mania fires up in one’s mind?

Any comfort in checking a hundred times

the things that you know are quite fine?

Does insanity come with a comforting touch to the soul,

when reality is painfully baffling?

I wish I knew the answer,

when I touch the addled minds…

I wish I could vouch to them that there’s comfort

in sanity.