Drowning In the Darkness

Drowning in the oppression of darkness, adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard, her mind becomes blank and blind, plummeting without sound. Loved ones watch helplessly, unable to reach her, banging against the walls of her sorrowful obscurity. Her silent killer holds her tightly, slowly suffocating her fragile breaths - we lose her into the spiritless forest, as winds blow away her garments, she wanders naked as raw rain reddens unhealed wounds on her exposed skin. Her tunnel mind is a swirl of emotions, as confusing mist absorbs her senses, but her face is an expressionless vision. I pray for autumn leaves to cover her vulnerabilities, but the insecurities of rain turn them soggy, so they float away with the breeze. Voluntarily misplaced in a somber swamp of slumber. Beneath melancholic charcoal trees with black, bare branches and empty nests,   she lays consumed with her silent killer - its embrace abusing her soul's harmony.   All is blue with shivering solemn eyes, stubborn, after late night tears - but she feels comfortably numb, because no one can hurt her, within her invisible cocoon. It's a place she has been before, will leave when her mind finds balance, but she knows she will return again soon. There is no beauty in tragedy, nor a remedy, when lifeless inside. The Silent One 1 November 2020 I wanted to raise awareness about how people feel when they are depressed. I am not depressed, but I know a lot of people who do suffer from depression. There are different types and levels of depression. Recently, I have spoken to people who are in a relationship or have friends/family members who are depressed, but do not know how to deal with it. When someone has severe depression and are bed ridden, they are not lazy, they do not have the will to get up or do anything. They will not care for appearance, nor hygiene, nor eating or drinking and definitely not socializing. They do not want to be there, they have no choice. Depression is a silent killer that suffocates all the happiness and positivity inside and it is something we will not understand, unless we have been there. It is all about patience and trying to understand, how they would want you to be towards them and that can only be done by asking them, because everyone is different and has different ways of coping when they have fallen deep. The broken are normally the ones that love harder, as they have seen the dark and know what it is like to feel unloved. https://www.bwcharity.org.uk/guides/mind/depression?gclid=Cj0KCQjwufn8BRCwARIsAKzP697Q36hw6lo9W5Aoe8Grx5GLhNsQYNkVnQhiueBe_5qVroMzsgOzc4IaAidzEALw_wcB https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/depression/for-friends-and-family/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwufn8BRCwARIsAKzP695wVQOncLHo2ma5a1z9QDa02sv23K5glL0rbomIYMPHSYBvyMS5qRIaAkFZEALw_wcB