The Poison Prison: Inside the Mind of a Paranoid Schizophrenic

I need you more than watera river could not quench this thirstthe dam holding back my emotionshas breached it's banks and begun to burstI'm right on this precipicelost within a dreammust be time to step over the ledgeand surrender this Machine...For the last quarter of a century I've been fighting an invisible war. A war I could never win but only endure. I found writing poetry as a way of making sense of the mess my life had become. You could say that I became a poet by default. If people really want to know what it's like to be me then I always refer them to my poetry. This book gives a voice to my angst. It describes my battle far better than I ever could in person.I am so thankful to this clarity writing has given me. Without this outlet the light of my existence would have been extinguished long ago. In my poetry I've drawn inspiration from religion, war, Greek mythology and an alter ego I've named 'Machine.' These worlds have given me life to my words. This book is a culmination of my 25 year battle with Schizophrenia. Chris