Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Introducing Layne Winters: Lost in Depression

She's alone

Living in eternity with nothing but darkness

She wants to get away

She wants to be free

Free of fear

Free of regret

Free of every sadness that she has ever felt

She wants to run

She wants to escape

She wants to fly

She doesn't have dreams

Only nightmares

Everyday

Night after night

Her mind is consumed with obscurity

How much longer must it go on?

Hope is nearly gone

Faith is disappearing

Her mind is longing to die

The will to live is fading

If it ends
It will not come back


It will not return

What will be left then?

How much longer can she live like this?

She is all alone

Forever abandoned

Forever lost

This is where it begins

This where is ends

This is where time stops

This is her reality










2 comments:

Laura said...

Nice poem, but what would happen to her because of depression? Does this affect her social life? What does it do to her? Is there anyway she can escape the state of depression?
Good job.

George said...

Very well done ... you have said a lot at conveyed what we go through every day.

To Laura ... depression is not something that you can beat very easily. It takes, without exception, very strong meds and therapy. Until lyou have been there you cannot judge how it affects anybody. Does it affect her social life? Absolutely because you don't have a social life living in your room all the time. What does it do to her? It makes her live on the edge of death.
I am not being mean and I am sorry if you read this and are offended. Your questions are so simplistic and depresseion is such a severe and misunderstood illness that requires rebuilding the neurotransmitters and rewiring genes in the brain, balancing what you have with what the meds give you.

It is a living death.