Depression

I hold you and blush springs to life
I hit you and tears spring out
But now the blush and...

I'm so tired of being tired.
Eyes dry,
Eyelids heavy.
The tightness in my chest grows...

In the winter months my garden is a frosty tomb
Between the plants and I, an abundance of blight,...

Nobody knows the pain that I feel nobody knows the thoughts that go on in my head
Nobody knows how...

Welcome back my old friend. I can feel you’re still the same. I guess some things never change. You are...

Flittering an dancing
Pictures churning around me
Glimpses of a memory
One so far away...

That smoke cloud
It seems to make its way back round
And I'm blowing loud so it engulfs the...

My mom said that eventually the more you get pushed away? The less you’ll want to come back.

...

I’m jealous of all your one night stands . I’m jealous of all your dates you ask out to breakfast. I’m...

Sadness sometimes is not wanting to get out of bed but forcing yourself too. Sadness sometimes looks happy...

You ask me to forgive you but I forgave along time ago. I dont hate you and even though I know...

Wanting to be big, to be better,
or best, to be noticed,
looked up to, respected, revered...

I wish that I was good enough
I don’t understand why life is so hard and so tough
I always...

I can hear it chewing
Crunching, gnawing
On yesterday´s ribs
Soon, I´ll feel it...

© 2022 Karianne Gabaldon

(Verse 1)

Cry yourself a river,
Drown inside, it’s smothers...

Like eyes staring out through glass
Watching life unfold, blinking
Like it’s all filtered...

I don't want to be calm.
Don't tell me to take a breath.

I want to wage war with my demons...