Battered and bleak With no ending in sight Hopelessness, helplessness Sleepless at night Distortion, distraction All fear and all flight Or is my perception Withholding the light?
Tag: depression
Frozen to the Bone
It is freezing! Ice covers cars. Icy fog fills the air. Miniscule icicles cover the privet bush, turning innocent leaves to nettles. One step outside is all it will take for the cold to bite into your being – yet the tree, stripped bare of leaves, has each branch beautified by the harshness of winter. Read More …
Walking backwards
The invisible squid! Apparently, people love to watch cats being stupid! Me too! Recently I saw the cat catching a squid clip, where the squid simply puts its tentacles over the cat’s face – and the cat walks backwards. Very funny. Days later, when someone spoke of depression, I saw that cat again. Those tentacles Read More …
I’ve failed! I’ve failed! I’ve failed!
Depression. Despair. Disillusionment. I remember the Rag and Bone man trundling along the street with his horse and cart, crying out in that spoken-sung tone. It was great news! If you were a kid and brought something to the cart you were given a balloon! This was almost as exciting as the arrival of the Read More …