Tag: depression
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Light and hopelessness
Every breath wrestles phlegm before exiting Having sword not will therewith to swing Falling to lesser enemies, head full of magic beans Dreaming beanstalks and Jack-stalking giants Giants who smell Englishmen welcome in the IRA With mad dogs and Anglo-Saxons in the sun’s final hours Rays unafraid despite day’s shortening, brighter therefore in spite Pale…
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Life’s estate undervalued underhanded
Why does Zeus hate me? Malice in thunderhand Where do zoots take me? Alice in Wonderland My will now a lost thing, gone with Altantis and Thunderbird Photos Kapnósynthesis, I am a Scythian Indigent mad on Cannabis My train and carriage long as a lasting marriage Vast tents of canvas blot a land West of…
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The strength (one day more)
Smasher of Pangea Increate, grant strength To rip myself from bed And claw way to work Panacea, melancholy’s antidote Grail overflowing with serotonin. Something niggling away inside me, ingrown nail Thinking myself a failure, to mockers abeyant Hidden fire, pyre strength alike which London undid, paling That bridge falling down, famously Falling with it, watertaking…
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Prostration’s cessation
Centuries of endless boredom end Stirring suddenly, repulsing dust I must I must I must I must At first my fussing mind tells me I am tired It mires me in anxieties, like manacles feet unfreeing Sprites spiteful away from me I thee banish, I thee vanquish They without bodies cannot vanish But for a…