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Songbird
Member Elite

since 1999-12-15

Posts 2184
Missouri

0 posted 2001-04-21 09:35 PM

I sit at the round table again
Talking to myself
What is the use
Depression has found you again
I was hoping this time
I had it licked
Now its rising its ugly head

My natural instincts tell me

To retreat
To the dark
I have no energy to fight
The demon
Depletes me

I retreat into the dungeon of lonliness

I lie down upon my bed
Pulling the covers over my head
My mind tells me
To escape
Forsake thy friends
For misery is contagious
Spare them the agony
Of thy expressionless face

I know "Depression" lies

I have heard his voice
So many times before
Yet he tells me those lies
Again and again
I listen not believing
But yet falling for them still

I slide down a slippery slope

coyote
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 1077

1 posted 2001-04-21 11:41 PM

He (depression) truly is a liar.
Your friends do want to listen.
Please keep writng.

"The rose, like the cactus flower, protects herself with thorns. We however, impale ourselves on their beauty."
coyote

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

2 posted 2001-04-21 11:45 PM

Ohh...This is excellent...your struggle is clear..and to the author I'd say to SEEK FRIENDS..the true ones will want to listen.

still d-i-s-c-o-n-n-e-c-t-e-d
I am bound by this, you see...to become Night's sole mistress, and I am jealous in my endeavours for his attention.

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

3 posted 2001-04-22 02:59 AM

Depression is certainly a struggle...and you've written a good portrayal of it...

K

a-alibaster
Member

since 2000-01-08

Posts 392

4 posted 2001-04-22 10:23 AM

...from a manic, eccentric, depresses person...this is a wonderful portral of the truth...Depression seems to be an ugly old man most of the time, but when he spins his wonderful silver tongued lies, he is beautiful...such a liar!!
Until...ali

"There is an alter ego which
dwells in every soul..."
a-alibaster

"I am as I am, nothing more, nothing less,
I am tears of pain, tears of Death.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

5 posted 2001-04-23 12:47 PM

Songbird, your friends speak the truth seek them out. When a thousand truths can't overwhelm the lie of depression seek out your friends. And if you need to hide, set a time limit on it.
Very real poem.
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

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