A Pill to Hold
How lucky she was, how fortunate in so many ways, there were no more worries, even on cloudy days. Her smiling analyst had a pill for loneliness, a substitute for Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: depression
Strangled Heart
Strangled heart, open so long, so long longing, wanting to love, waiting to give, but instead lamenting. Strangled heart, its passion shriveling, its strength withering, fading to dust, pain turned Continue Reading →
Descent into Lost
Feet in the fire, walking on the sun, opening the wounds, that render it dust. Tears seek a heart, but they’ve all left, grasping the air, finding no breath. Anxiety. Continue Reading →
Chasing Acceptance
There was a point along the road when she realized the truth: being different was going to have to do. Chasing acceptance was a dead end, at best a cul-de-sac Continue Reading →
Holding Tight to Toxicity
What is this thing you do? You don’t wish to die alone and so you hold tight to your humiliator, your abuser, your apathetic acquaintances, your toxic friends… Sit. Think. Continue Reading →
Walking Through
Something a little different today. I’m writing this late on Monday for my normal poem posting on Tuesday. And if you’re expecting a poem for Tuesday please keep reading. It’s Continue Reading →
Presence in Another Room
Shadows of the past… disjointed dancing always seen askance, a presence in another room there’s no key to. Whispered sorrows, out of date and rescued too late, that’s where the Continue Reading →
I Know What You Are
Depression, I know who you are. Always coming around, smiling and charming, but you’re bad drugs in a dirty needle, wanting me numb, wanting me wrapped in despair. Let’s be Continue Reading →
It
It meets your gaze when others look away, taking your hand when others withhold. It wipes your tears when no one sees, whispering it’s love when you’re alone. It shouldn’t Continue Reading →
Hope as a Quest
We’ve all seen it in one cartoon or another. Good sitting on one shoulder and bad on the other. Or the same scene with an angel and a devil. The Continue Reading →