Another Eager Student of Depression
I must now learn how to laugh!
Does it start with a smile?
Maybe not even,
A tilting of the head
Or a gentle sighing nod
How does it feel to know happiness?
Only misery lives here
My address is well known
at DEATH's Valleys Inn...
Check in for the night
and depression is guaranteed
While I cannot teach you the ways of joy
Would I need to though?
I have experience in the many
and ever so varying
arts of sadness.
Come learn from me,
Feed me your grief!
A stir and a bow,
A framing of a frown.
Glooming in despair
ghostly nightmares
The dread and despair
that filters the air
is the feeling I'll
impart to you,
My desperate
and very
lonely
friend.
The breeze you know
and have come
to cherish is the
stillness of disgust.
The peace you have had
to deny, to disguise your
Demons
There is much joy in my
shared misery and so I hoard
it for myself.
this whineful disposition
in my soul;
brewing
bitterness
to
its
maturation.
2017/11/15
Pick Your Topic Contest: Depression and Sadness!!
Sizwe Hlabisa
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