Fighting Depression With Your Yellow

Your yellow appears during
the darkest days
as you feel the black set in. 
Being aware of your 
instincts causes a chain reaction 
that bleeds into nothingness,
blended below your tortured remorse.

You're scared, I know. 
The trepidation crowds your self-worth.
You're sad, I know.
The truth of the matter is that your
foreboding crisis creeps outside the 
color of your true essence.

Your essence is yellow.
Always has been, but you
could never feel your sunshine.
The daily struggle of haunting ghosts,
makes you relive the childhood
demons over and over again.

When you were born, you held
a golden locket in your heart.

When you were born, you held
a medallion inside your soul.

These shades made you...you.
And you...basked into the smiles
your mother gave you when in her arms.

Depression sets in during trials of
lost souls. The lost souls crowd around and
eat at your flakes of sanity.
Chemical reactions ignite, and somewhere
in between your despondency and agony,
the fire breaks through and you crave
the rain.
Your rain is full of satisfied contentment.
Your rain comes to an end,
and there it is.
Your sweet shades of insightful yellow.

I only have one wish.
That you could've seen your yellow,
before it was too late.

Good bye, my sweet, may you rest in peace...

Written By: Laura Loo
Date Written: March 21, 2016
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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Date: 3/23/2016 6:41:00 PM
Laura, oh so deep and beautiful, love this golden write 7 ~
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Date: 3/25/2016 5:53:00 PM
Many thanks Broken Wings :)-luloo
Date: 3/21/2016 7:56:00 PM
If there is any beauty to be found within one's sorrow, I believe you have extruded it with this piece from your heart. Healing is a ladder that we climb each day, and some rungs we must stop and rest upon, if just for a while...and stare at the rainbow of the ones we love. J.
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Date: 3/22/2016 1:21:00 AM
very emotional comment J..I always appreciate your kind feedback :)-luloo
Date: 3/21/2016 6:17:00 PM
i really like this, heartfelt, touching, the title drew me in and intrigued me...this speaks to me on so many levels, i think i need to rediscover my sunshine...is this for a particular contest?
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Date: 3/21/2016 7:28:00 PM
ps..I hope you're ok...
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Date: 3/21/2016 7:26:00 PM
Thank you Charlotte :) No not for a contest, which is funny because I rarely write non-contest poems, thank you :)-luloo
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