Depression Dancing Poems

Acceptance is easy to feel
It’s like dancing in the rain
Whilst wishing for a drier deal

If not for regret soaking me
Acceptance would be right as rain
Forgiveness...

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Put on your smile little clown,
Paint on your big red lie.
And even when they're gone,
You're not allowed to cry.
Dance little clown,
Be their little Dandy,
And eat...

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I was stressed out 
And talking to myself 
Realizing the devil was talking at me
 I rebuked him because
 I began to see 
What unrightous...

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So we go into second full lockdown 
It's simply just getting everyone down
No meeting places for us to go to
Contact with only those bubbled with...

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do you ever just wanna dance in the rain? 
fall in love with every drop? 
away from all the mindlessness? 
i wonder if smiling through...

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A nurse takes time
To hang a DNA rainbow strain
Of Christmas bulbs
Along my gray window ledge

He plugged them in
Bringing a campfire glow of embers
Under my lids
And...

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now sunless days on automatic pilot
skies from greys to blues to violet
feigning composure while on edge
he dances nonchalantly on a ledge



extract from my poem ABYSMAL...

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Hey There

Giving so much 
I can't see you
There
with your husband4
That should be me
We tested the waters and the great sea
found a sailor.
Nearby I fixed the...

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Dancing prancing
cry cry cry
Whirling twirling
die die die

Up on the roof top
Laughing with maniacal glee
Saddest moment ever
Keeping this to myself, as you can see

Shopping, buying everything...

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Dancing With Those Depressing Blues

There are times that I do not speak
spirit low and my body weak;
times that life knocks me all about,
silence helps me...

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The illusions of having
How it gets to me
But i never see the tracks
So i play tapes, rewinding life
Going in circles all over again,
Missing the facts
While...

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What I care about
and what I am working
and even playing hard with
is better understanding what and how
we and Earth
communicate to and with each other,
regenerating mindbody...

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Dancing Waters
They drop like leaves
They cut themselves like Branches
They transfer their heart to their back
They paint themselves in red

The guns and boots are resurrected
They tattoo...

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Crushed under a stone's weight,
A burden carried far too long.
For nothing.

What was said or done cannot be undone,
And "sorry" seemed too simple.

Instead, you cling to...

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I find myself
dancing alone
at odd intervals

I'm that girl 
the one 
with crazy dreams and a heart full of nails

I'm the girl no one knows
and if...

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