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Within these apartment walls 
Depression looms, 
Permeates, destroys. 
Its sterile white walls 
Are oppressive,
Even claustrophobic.
Silverfish slither 
Across white ceilings, 
I pray they don’t drop 
Into my mouth
As I sleep.

I lay on my roll out sofa,
Praying that the foul odor, 
Is just my neighbor’s 
Trash laden home,
And not my neighbor.
Last time I saw him
He was wraithlike
I haven’t seen him lately.

I tried everything, 
To brake 
This prison’s hold,
But all was lost… 
The ceiling caved-in.
Nothing but rafters 
And roaches above.
This dark and dingy tenement 
The west side slums.

I hide
Behind closed drapes,
So no one can see 
My despair.
My head sinks low,
And my tears fall 
To my feet 
And bathes, 
Another bug.

A hairy caterpillar inches
Across my naked white toes.
As desperate as I am,
To escape this ruin.

I watch as it climbs, 
The edge of the curtains
Until it disappears,
Behind the drapes
And out the broken window.

With a silent prayer,
I follow it,
And peel back, 
Mold encrusted blinds,
Letting in an eruption of light,
Like the strike of a match.
It burns right through me,
Searing depression 
From my body,
With rays of Divine Mercy.

My eyes adjust 
There in front of me 
Life is magnified.

Orange colored blossoms 
Shining in the sun 
As delicate as gossamer.
Leaves in a warm summer breeze
Glowing from within
As they danced their praises.
The tiny caterpillar 
Reared his forelegs, 
He laughed at the spectacle,
And flirted with a butterfly.

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