Depression

Depression is a fog. It clouds your mind and heart and is a veil over not just the bad things, but also the good. I realised this the day that mine began to act up on a perfectly sunny, summer afternoon, when I should have felt happy. And I didn’t. Instead, I felt that sinkingContinue reading “Depression”

Moonlight

It was never ok, Never quite settled Or content, Always a sense of Rattled hearts And splintered fingertips, Reaching for the moonlight As it spilt across your back On October nights when The windows were open And the air was cool As ice in tall glasses On Saturdays in July, But you never stirred, UnableContinue reading “Moonlight”

1906

It was all too much, each day the heavy weight of continuing on waited to crush her, knowing her arms were too weak to lift the load above her head once it fell. She couldn’t hold it off any longer. It had hung there for far too long, taunting her, teasing it’s imminent collapse. HerContinue reading “1906”

Depression Is

Not leaving the house for nearly two weeks because you can’t get going and struggle to even get out of bed. And then finally, the light breaks through, and you get up, and you go out, and it feels like the fog has cleared. At least, for the time being.