Musings of a Broken Mind

By Emma J. Shane

Musings of a Broken Mind takes you through the struggles of one who is suffering not just from the loss of the love of her life but who also had to deal with her newfound companion, Bipolar Disorder. Through this book, you will be able to travel through the various stages of grief from disbelief, anger, to acceptance. You will also be taken on a roller coaster of emotions ranging from the extremes of mania to depression. The poems in this book are an ode to the love the author shared with her beloved. Sometimes as they say, it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Nov 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543752885

Emma J. Shane

Emma was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder following the sudden death of her husband. Shifting between mania and depression, she felt trapped and unable to express her pain. Rekindling her love of writing, she found an avenue to say the things that she couldn’t in person.

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Copyright © 2019 by Emma J. Shane.

Library of Congress Control Number:    2019911248

ISBN:                  Hardcover                        978-1-5437-5290-8

                            Softcover                           978-1-5437-5289-2

                            eBook                                978-1-5437-5288-5

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Contents

Prologue

Take Me Away

The Room

Her Death

Last Ride

Searching For Your Door

Mirage

A Queen

Searching, Searching

You

Dreams Unraveled

Roads We Travelled

Wake And Sleep

Come Sweet Slumber

She’s Come Again

To Hell With It All

Dream

The Calm Within The Storm

Cimmerian Roots

Lonely Roads

What If Death Had Fallen In Love With Life?

From the Outside Looking In.

The Twilight Train

My Journey

I’ve Dreamt

Senses

Voices

I Am Alive

My Heart

Speak His Name

When The Wind Blows

Do They Speak Your Name

Lonely Nights

Upon The Midnight Breeze

Peace

Our Love Story

Questions

Moons Have Passed

I Search For You

Soul of Gold

What Do People Know?

Memories

Dark, Dark Clouds

Pestilence

Tired Soul

I Still Look For you

What Was It?

Comfort in Pain

A Shameless Ode To My Love

Cacophony Of A Tumultuous Past

Life and Death

You Too

Don’t You Go Away

The Nights

Darkness

I Found Love

I Looked In The Mirror

A Thousand Deaths

There Is Peace

Beyond The Mirror

Receive Me

Some Say

Maybe

One and All

My Sins

Time

Love’s Last While

Memories They Were

Where Are you Now?

Love me, Love

Haven’t Stopped Yearning

The Darkness

Dark

I’ve Laid Myself Bare

Ever Present

Obsession

Banished

Heart On A Sleeve

There Was A Time

Incongruous Thoughts

Go in Search of Your Sanity

Death

Tell Me

Farewell

Who I am?

Happiness

Gather the Dust

She

She Smiles

If Only

The Differences between Them

Moments

A Penny for Your Thoughts

In Love’s Own Medley

Love Me

Memories Too

His Touch

Different Tunes

He

Her Faults

To Hell and Back Again

In His Arms

Race

Prologue

She was a cacophony of emotions in a silent world. She was alone even in the presence of family and friends. For many years, she suffered in silence choosing to write