Depression

I took on world politics
man's inhumanity to man,
social injustice,
addiction to fast food.
Too much sugar and salt
in our diets,
glaciers melting
seas rising
deserts eroding
and I internalised it all,
took it all on me,
I found a fault line
and it was me.

Me, and me alone,
I was the curse,
it jaundiced me
and with yellow eye
I viewed through
one of those optical lens'
retrograde kaleidoscopes
and my heart beat faster
and the veins
seemed stuck with
black glue

Depression
Don't let it be you




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Written on 2019-10-05 at 18:39

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shells
This is one of those "step away from the edge" pieces. Disturbingly current, in the second stanza the pressure mounts and it seems to question everyone.
2019-10-08


Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
No one can, or should, bear all of that.
2019-10-07