Depression is An Ocean
Living like an ocean tide
~ is hard enough to do.
An endless e b b and f l o w,
of sorrow and glow,
with few to understand you.
Never knowing when the next wave will surface,
a deep fear of unknown ache.
What once was solid ground,
becomes unstable with emotional quakes.
Drowning with each incoming tide;
breathing when it resends.
Troublesome to love yourself;
arduous to maintain a friend.
The swells never stop;
even when they can, and will, drift away.
Winds will blow them closer soon enough,
weather is unchanging that way.
Emotional storms;
isolation forms;
loneliness is safe;
- few are willing to ride these waves.
Unwanted is this sea;
while it can be beautiful – it can also be misery.
Many moons transform depths to shallows,
fullness to hollows;
freedom to swallows;
delight to wallows.
Can the ocean be tamed?
Will these waves refrain?
What would Marine be – without the waves that make the sea?
Peaceful, pacifying collisions;
most are lulled into a calm state of mind.
Those of us enslaved to the waves;
feel the shackles to which we are confined.
A tree cannot control the dirt in which it grows;
a sea cannot decide whether or not the wind wants to blow;
a person cannot change the timing of their woes;
Depression is an ocean;
a depth, not many want to know.
2/17/2017

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