Sunday Musings, featuring Poetess Valerie Lynn's Poem by Williamsji Maveli

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• Sunday Musings, featuring
• Poetess Valerie Lynn's Poem
• by Williamsji Maveli

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Sunday Musings:  Sunday, 16th November

 My Sunday Greetings to COSMOFUNNEL Administration, to all authors, artistes and viewers

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SYNOPSIS: This is my weekend writing column for a review of a poem from a selected author. This Column is being titled as "Sunday Musings " with a view to feature an in-depth analysis of  any one of the poems from the previous weeks postings, selected by me at random to avoid the elaborate review or comment postings  by me in the usual comments column. Poetess Valerie Lynn's almost all poems are great success and have won the appreciations from COSMO viewers and authors. Hence it was very difficult to choose the best one for my review. However, I shall plan this column in such a way to accommodate almost all style of poems by all poets and poetess of COSMOFUNNEL, which I hope will give more room for encouragement and inspirations to write. The poems selected are purely from my own liking and discretion and has nothing to do with the ratings, voting and favorite aspects. Hope, readers will understand my view point and enjoy my writing. My views and interpretations in this column are purely my own observations, and it has nothing to do with the personal life of the author of the poem. I am eager to read your feed-backs.  The  poem which  I have taken-up for this Sunday Musings is "  REFLECTION OF DEPRESSION  " written by Poetess Valerie Lynn

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• REFLECTION OF DEPRESSION
• By
• VALERIE LYNN

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Depression runs deep

Within the family

But is it really a disease

Or just a way of thinking

© 2014 Valerie Lynn

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The above short poem is very thought provoking and needs an in-depth study on the dangerous consequences of the symptom which are  very common in the current health issues faced by the modern world. Being alone and depression lead to a lack of enthusiasm, a lack of motivation, a lack of energy, a lack of care, a lack of self-respect. Loneliness and depression lead to an obsession of the mind with the good things in life which have been lost, and keep on regrets for the grief of loss. Loneliness and depression lead to a sense of separation, a feeling of shyness, a sense of being unwanted, and a destructive desire to be alone. Loneliness can be at its most acute, when you are least alone.

Poetess Valerie Lynn narrates her own experience on the subject which is as below: When I was diagnosed with my disease I became severely depressed to where I shut out so many people who I knew truly cared about me but at the time I was so deep into depression that I didn't care. My mom is the one who noticed how deep in I was and took me to a psychiatrist so I could get on antidepressants. I will NEVER go on another antidepressant as long as I live! EVER! It literally almost took my life twice. It was a side effect of the drug I was put on: May cause suicidal thoughts or actions. Well the medicine I was on made me black out and literally jump out of a car and walk across a highway and stand in the second lane. A pickup truck had to swerve a few feet away from me to avoid killing me. I continued to walk across the other lanes of traffic and my mom ran after me. I don't want to think of what would have happened if I had been driving by myself. The second time I blacked out I was already in the hospital and out of nowhere reached into my purse and grabbed the first bottle of pills and put them in my hand and reached for my mouth. My mom was waiting in the hospital with me and had to jump on top of me to save my life. The doctor said if I had consumed the pills I would have   died right there. Thank God I was in the hospital and they found out it was the antidepressant causing me to black out and try to kill myself. Not everything can be solved with medication. I had to find that out the hard way. Writing is my therapy.    

Loneliness and depression lead to insomnia, a sense of hopelessness, and a feeling of despair about insurmountable problems. Live within the present, not in the past or future, Loneliness and depression lead to a life full of regrets about what was, and what might have been, and a life of worries about what may be in the future. The past is a place of pleasures and regrets. The pleasures from the good times. The regrets for the good times which have gone, and regrets for the missed opportunities and for the loved ones and friends who were lost. Is it better to have good memories or bad memories?

Dear Poetess Valerie Lynn, Please accept my congratulations in sharing this short, but thought provoking poem to us, Hope, we will get good verses in the future as well, May God Bless you, Happy writing,

Regards & Love from

WILLIAMSJI MAVELI