Depression Rictameter Poems

Canvas,
blank yet speaking 
to me in my exile.
Dare I fill it with the colors 
missing, always missing from the pattern 
I've sewn like a cocoon...

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Lift me
When light has fled
And dark consumes my head
When colors lie in fractured rays
My vision diminished to splintered grays
Leaving me blind to blue and red
When...

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Life, Hi
How are you now
Oh me, not wonderful
For I have sadness and am weak
No that is not swell how shall we change this
Hold on, I...

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High tide
sadness billows
swells over me in waves
massive, silent, overwhelming
melancholy ocean engulfing me
flailing, drowning in emotion
or maybe I'm being
too dramatic
only-

It feels
that dramatic-
my universe slightly
out of orbit...

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Darkness

Hidden shadows

Keeping all their secrets

Out of reach from my prying eyes

If only for a moment I could see

Revealing mysteries that hide

I might learn of myself

Alone...

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My rainy muse
clouds my mind's vision.
Colorblind to this deep blue
sea of tear-filled ambiguity.
These dim thoughts of mine want to drown me in it.
Though, I can't...

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Unseen
Between shadows
Opinion is unheard
Feeling emptiness on the soul
Nobody care is she alive or dead

Sadness reflects in her lost eyes
Blank stare in the dark night
Weeping past...

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When you
Feel that you are
Sinking hopelessly and
Your world is crumbling in pieces
Drowning in a well without remedy
Exist two paths you can select
Stay in total darkness...

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Alone
devastated
by years of betrayal
my future feels like it's over.
Contemplating committing suicide
depression has me in its grip
weeping in solitude
suffering all
alone.

Absurd
to cry for love
and yet it feels...

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Darkness
Descending Doom
Despondency's Domain
Deleterious Degrading
Deepening Dramatic Desecration
Demonic Debilitation
Destructive Delusion
Desperation
Darkness...

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I am  
lost in my mind
steeped in dark emotion.
Shadows block the light from my eyes
and all I see is the blackness of pain
which holds...

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