Yes you gave good expression and I recognise the times and places you speak about, very well. No death is not an ending - but a trap life drains into, as well as a new beginning arising out of the old chaotic destruction of the dark days and cold nights a depressed person has been through, as life for the depressed is bound to improve over time - for the survivors that is!
You go into describing physical reality first moving into the spiritual/psychological side of the affliction. This can be somewhat confusing to people who don't understand the psychological side of depression - at first they understand somewhat what you mean but then they get lost - as the depressed person does - but the reader doesn't necessarily understand this aspect of depression perhaps make a clearer break between the two.
I think you could power-up your poem with words such as dark(ness), isolated, cold, empty feelings, dull, inner fires burning, lonely, alone, doubt, shame, fear, bondaged, oppressive, death, dying, kill, joyless, emotional cut off, unstable, lightening strikes, storms, insecure confusion, hell, hellish, and thoughts flashing, spinning, demanding, calling and accusing etc.
just a few suggestions to spice your address a bit..
(I made the change you suggested to my poem - hope it reads better, thought the word I used originally did describe the situation very well, I thought.
Thanks for sharing and reviewing.
Gerry
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