Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

remembering 

our conversation

about drug addiction

the greatest tragedy

is your own self-loathing

Sunday, September 2, 2012

This is not what I would consider a haiku or tanka but influenced by the haiku form. These will be short verses which I will post periodically. This one is dedicated to Hurricane Isaac which reached the Saint Louis area in the form of rain. By the time Isaac got here, it was a tropical depression. The gray skies made me think of the components of depression.

End of the Drought

sorrow returns
in a cold, gray rain
from an anonymous cloud
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The onset of depression can come without any warning and sometimes without the person’s being aware of what caused it. For me, the “anonymous” becomes a pivotal part of depression’s sequence—that of feeling blue but not being able to pinpoint why.