Help Me Minister
Mr Smith, Honourable Minister
Mr Smith, your idea's sinister
You expect your workers to deliver
Shit balls rolled in cabinet rooms
You expect your workers to deliver
A service that breaks all rules
Instead help me Mr Smith
Help me Minister, help me Nick
Because a damaged man he raped me
Every way he could
A damaged many he raped me
Because he knew he could
Help me justice system
Help me lawyer, help me chief
I've been asking for care and justice
Every way I could
I've been asking for care and justice
Because I knew I could
Help me health providers
Help me professionals, help me guiders
The injury of abuse
Treatment and neglect's unfair
The injury of abuse
Should follow models of health care
Help me please my people
Help me heal, help me beat it
Don't take from me those ones
Those that understand
Don't take from me support
That steady guiding hand
Help me Mr Keys, help me Minister, help me please
JR Murphy, Oct 2009
Written onto black canvas with white calligraphy ink. Between A5 and A4 size. Not mounted or framed
Canvases with this poem handwritten on can be purchased for $50. Send to Papawai Poetry Press, 12 East Street, Greytown
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JR MurphyEight years ago I suffered a severe trauma as a result of a crime, subsequently my life/brain was turned inside-out, so I went from being a law student at Victoria and businesswoman to an artist on welfare. I paint, draw, sculpt, do puppetry, write plays, poetry and songs. Some of my work is beautiful and descriptive of the good things in my environment, however much of it has become political, expressing my pain and frustration at being unable to access care from health services and the continued discrimination by my community.
I have a disorder called Complex PTSD which is life-threatening, however it also has a very creative aspect. Although it has left me destitute and disabled I believe you should make the most of what you have. I want to share those creative ideas I have had and maybe one of them will be successful and help restore my life and spirit to something like it was before.
