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Depression is trying to find meaning
when everything feels meaningless

Every day I wake up
I have to choose to fight for myself
to fight for the spark
that’s missing in my heartbeat
to fight for the smile
I want to feel on my face

Because there is beauty
on the edges of this darkness
where the sunlight meets
the never-ending night
and I have to step outside
my comfort zone to find it

There’s beauty in the ordinary
the way a flower grows
through a crack in the pavement
unfazed by human meddling
there’s beauty in the old houses
that’ll be condemned in a few years
their windows like eyes
growing tired of a world
chasing a future their walls
won’t get to see
there’s beauty in the curve
of a stairwell
and the flickering lights
of an underpass tattooed with graffiti
there’s beauty in the things
we see so often
we forget they’re beautiful

So, I capture the ordinary
and carry it with me
to remind myself that I’m alive
and that everything matters
no matter how small
or insignificant
or forgotten

There is meaning here
if I just open my eyes
and look beyond to see

© Indie Adams 2022
Written by Indie (Miss Indie)
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