Depression Writing Poems

I wrap my fingers around the pen
which has lain dormant collecting dust
for months on end feeling as if
I'm lifting a fifty pound weight
straining not just...

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soothe is an abyss I cannot seem to climb down into.

when I realize I am comfortable I feel uncomfortable .

calamity 

is all my body knows.

this...

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A lady in a Victorian dress,
Next to an old printing press.
Within a gloomy writing lair,
Falling down the abyss of despair.

I can see the tempest in...

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Things aren't the same anymore
There's nothing to account for
I wish there was a painless way to end things
I wish you no longer had access to...

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yet his gait was limiting
to the harvest of shadows around him
breathing whatever air was there
at the time
and since his writing 
caught no-one's attention
and colourful birds...

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Begins with Hyundai's my stalker fatal attraction 
rushing in front of our disabled vehicle then rams break 
hard causing us to panic my spouse and...

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My head is a bowl of whirling thoughts
My mind,a rugged sea of jagged waves and shattered dreams

A caricature of a fulfilled life
Cartoonish belief in hope

The...

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I brush my teeth.

I wash my face.

I sit, with my pen and paper.

My eyebrows furrow, 

I bite my lips,

I should feel refreshed…

I got up early...

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I sit here in this darkness, this place that feels so raw. Where the world is falling down around me and I feel I just...

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Sanity is gone
An intense moment of joy
And a pleasant shock

does make it happen
Even the most anchored man
seldom escapes it

Like spider in wait
stalking ready to pounce...

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The rainbow comes after the storm they say
But my storms are ever lasting 
And my rainbows short-lived.
I don't want to know how much I mean...

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The lemonade I drink is sour,
reminds me of my childhood,

the sugar was not spilled before my feet,
while I was conquering the barren land of life...

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sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to breathe. like the air cycling through my body suddenly stands still. a dark fog protrudes from beneath...

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10/9/2023

i know i am capable of loving 
i can feel it when i’m in love
whether it’s with the warmth of a hand in mine, a...

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I so rejoice You waited patiently through my travails
of depression,
You were present, and said silently, "Hold on tightly
to me."
Throughout my gray watercolor restless nights,
You bestowed...

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