General Poetry posted February 16, 2015


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the blight of depression

A Gray Slant of Light

by NamastaLee

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A Gray Slant of Light
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It feels like I’m drowning
In this murky pond
A negative crowning
From darkness beyond
 
If only remembrance
Could conjure lost bliss
If only a semblance
Of nothing but this
 
In bed in dawn’s twilight
I dread light of day
The comfort of dark night
Is draining away
 
Before me the morning
And then afternoon
And then comes the warning
Of dusk’s pending gloom
 
My shrink pushes Prozac
He asks what I think
I answer with cognac
And all kinds of drink
 
I know that you’ve known me
I know that you care
But inside I carry
Such songs of despair
 
I watch and I wait here
In mid-light I dwell
Someday my soul might hear
A crack in my shell
 
But with me depression
Has nowhere to hide
This dreadful obsession
With what lies inside
 

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