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Depression

gazellemon
Bradley J
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Depression Description

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Describe what depression means/feels like to you.

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eswaller
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Heavy Depression

It is like a dark cloud is hanging over your head.
It becomes harder to pull yourself out of bed
Every day. Just when you think you get better
That is when it clings to you like a thick sweater,
Trying to suffocate you and pull you back into
The shadows where it lives. It is a battle you
Can never always win. Just when you think
You won is when it will find a way to sink
Into you like thorns, claws, and talons.
It is like you are drowning in water gallons
Deep and with no life preserver in sight.
It is like you are too afraid to take flight
And leave. A part of you stays rooted
And believes in things that are so diluted
Or false. It is hard to take off the blindfold
To see the world as shiny. You have enfolded
Yourself within the darkness and stay there
No matter if there is light or any air.
Written by eswaller
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runaway-mindtrain
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God's holy trousers::::--

 
You are going to hell with gasoline drawers on
Shortest distance 'tween two lines is a point
Yesterday is the best part of history
You deeply inhale the philosophic joint...
 
Benevolent dictatorship without respite
Drinking a propaganda cocktail rite
Out of a book of shadow puppet politicians
Being baptized in boiling water slide positions...
 
Firing a bullet that just left going somewhere
Wearing a wig of parabolic projectile hair
While shuffling the cards now in my head
My ears can't believe what I just said...
 
(intermission)....
 
I don't think without speaking
Like a mind drain without leaking
Deposit monopoly money in the bank
Melt the lizard to render gas in the tank...
 
Stop the rainbow from bending
Outlaw the email from sending
Taking a walk on the marathon run
While shining a flash light on the sun...
 
Trick the bee to make sugar honey pies
As we watch the mushroom cloud rise
Don't drink the ancient mental poison
Mixed with the modern Kool-aid lie...
 
They build a soul rocket for soaring
And then go bury it in the dirt...
The truth of life is no real secret
But learning it always hurts...
Written by runaway-mindtrain
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sweetdevil
CortneyB
Thought Provoker
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Everything  I love
Has left me in the shadows
I have lost it all...

AtoMikbomb
Fire of Insight
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The Drop

   
 Blended palettes pour
muted susurrations slip skyward
Ash passes-
dour breath enlivens what's...

left

Overcasting cogent columns
coating in gray-
the cold...
our hiemal holdfast    
Written by AtoMikbomb
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God-Is-In-The-Rain
Gregory Rain
Twisted Dreamer
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Lady Despair




Trying to erase her past....
She desperately longs for....
Wanting to be last....
Wanting to be more....
Loving white....
But wearing black....
With wish to take a bite....
She puts chocolate back....
Loving Rain....
But staing under roof....
Wrists decorated with pain....
Eyes waterproof....
Wishing for someone to care....
Wishing for world to end....
My Lady Despair....
My only Friend....
....
Me....
Just like i have always been....
My own wife....
My own knife....
Forever Stuck between....
Trying to live my life....

....And trying to run from it....


note: i've uploaded this work for another competition too, like 10 mins ago.... and that kind of makes me realize that perhaps i don't like all that many works of mine... which i feel like adds a layer to this work considering the topic.... because.. .yeah... that'S pretty bum...

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drivelicious13
alon aLion
Dangerous Mind
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Nothingness

something          
always          
 somethingness      
always          
 blessed          
when anaesthesia          
 is at it`s best          
only then          
 true nothingness          
          
nothinger          
 than paralyzed          
by medicine chest          
 nothinger          
than face down          
 motionless          
after cocktails          
 countless          
          
 nothingness          
the only refuge          
 when lover rejects          
regardless          
 of excruciating pain          
I profess          
 regardlesser          
than sacrifice          
 in her service          
I acquiesced        
          
 at the time        
it seemed        
 totally selfless        
yet now I sense        
 it was perhaps        
subconcious        
 forcing self        
to invest        
 emotional hedge        
psychological chips        
 redempt        
when sufficiently        
 stressed        
          
but I digress        
          
 nothingness          
nothinger          
 than death  
good `ol  
 last breath          
Spirit released          
 through energy          
mysterious          
 only nothingness          
relieves          
 pains from    
pondering closure        
 of this mess          
          
oh genius          
 anaesthetist          
bring me  
 your best          
swirling tank  
of gaseous  
 rest          
  
mis-interpret  
 lab test  
dont double-check  
 simply forget  
let innocent  
 human error
eternally          
 render
me oblivious          
 in glorious
perpetual          
 nothingness
Written by drivelicious13 (alon aLion)
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poet Anonymous

Empty

the pen trembled slightly
held firmly in my hand
fingers chasing fleeting thoughts
trying to convey them
find a way to properly say them
but in the end
the page remained blank
empty
devoid of expression
and yet it said it all exact
what was written
was what I felt

gazellemon
Bradley J
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Nephele
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