Category: Depression
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Grief – One Tear (Audio)
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in Childlike, Depression, Depth, Desert, Grief, Legacy Archive, Longing, Poetry, Solitude, Soul, Spoken-Word, Uncategorized, Writing101Day Eight: Describe a place. I am in a place where material subjects don’t hold my attention very well. So this is an attempt at describing an emotional space. I have penned no words for you since forever Out of time though, my heart has done nothing but call your name Over and over I…
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Ashes (Audio)
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Silence – Seething – Stillness Ashes – Grey and black fill the throat, choking off life. Only barren, sterile, ache fills the chest. The exquisite has abandoned me somewhere between pleasure and pain. Now only numb, dull, persistent ache. It is dumb, with no voice, no purpose. Pain with no purpose is a cruel…
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Frozen Spring (Something’s not Right) – Audio
This is the coldest Spring I’ve known The bright green of the new season breaks without me Pinks, yellows, whites, reds, purples, and blues, emerge all around They signal that Spring has come The bird-songs rise with the sun They call and woo one another in preparation for new life The sun is warm…
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Now (Audio)
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Once bright. Source of strength and direction. Once comforter. Now quietly desperate. Stoic face. Bruised Soul. Bright smile with dead eyes. No relief. Sources of joy now steal strength like the opening of a vein. Shallow half breaths maintain the body between sighs. Life is played in minor chords, note by excruciating note. Time has…