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09 Oct This post is from from my other blog here If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that a number of people have turned their avatar blue. It is part of the effort to raise awareness of anxiety and depression -- Blue Day 2008. World Mental Health Day is on October 10. Depression can affect any of us, at any time -- sometimes it creeps up on us, other times it hits like a fist. But it can be worked through -- and help can be found. For me it was writing that helped to me to work through my own depression ... and I have now lived many years without looking back into its cold eyes.This is a poem that I wrote from the depths. A Year, That YearThe must door exhales the memory of you.Rotting teeth, perfect flying spirals and the fresh breath of forgotten fearsI dreaded your coming and going and the wake of your torrents - the sting of your taleFor I knew there was more to the story than the telling.The idle tranquility of sprawling sheets offends the angry palmSlamming doors, eyes shut, window panes.The disappointment of a clear sky, an empty room and words falling from the pageAnd of all this you taught me: Even deserts have spring rains.But for me?I have supp'd on losses of a kindThe mother lost and lost haunts each move, each thought, each brush of skin on skinThe friends countless, disappeared, disappearing all rooms without facesAnd the words that left me when only writing could hold the sorrow that breathed meI stood shooting tentacles, acts of faith - desperation asideI would have preferred anything to thisTo the slow, unfolding knowledge that can only bring you to yourselfI have squeezed the blinding anguish of you, ripped the pages of your historyAte it like the truthAnd at its end, shooting sparrows from the sky, I began with ink and an uncertain ending. ----- stories. So what can you do? The folks from BlueDay2008 suggest the following:
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