Depression Is

Depression has senses you know
it has a certain scent 
It reeks more than body odor
It shows of the descent

There's booze oozing from my pits
Teeth not touched in days
A crotch not washed, oh dirty thoughts
This is the end of days

Onions I cut two nights before
Still linger on my skin
Hair greased back in mashed up sick sacks
Sloth is now what's in

The skin around my fingers
More raw than veal filet
And the darkest of dreams, of what could it seem
Getting sicker by the day

This is depression,
 what no one wants to know
It has an odor and a sight, smell is rank the sight is dark 
It comes as often as the wind blows
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Guzzi Avatar
January 11, 2015 at 3:46 PM
You do describe it well, I keep a list of things which make me happy & refer to it when sad because I can't remember anything making me happy when sad? Light & Love
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January 9, 2015 at 4:05 PM
Great poem. This candid poem floods the senses with a revealing portrait of the beast known as depression.
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