Depression

Jennifer DeLong 1973 (Marysville)



do you have moments where you can’t imagine a future?
you’re lying there staring at the
same walls
same ceilings
same words
with nothing but the same feelings-
empty and pale
like there’s no reason to go on
when you can’t even do enough to fail
the future is coming but you
can’t imagine yourself in it
where you just want to stop
everything
and just sit there for a while
maybe not forever
as that’s too permanent,
but something close to it
when you feel like there's a rope
around your neck
Is it just depression or is it the loneliness
when you don't know but you know
you can't continue to feel this way © Jennifer Delong 11/7/18
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Scheme ABCDEDFGFHIJKLAMINOPQR
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 625
Words 120
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22

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