The sadness creeps over,
a ponderous behemoth,
encompassing my lands and being.
It seeps into my streams, polluting them
with its murky ill-will,
making a mockery and a mire.
It kills off my grass and trees, turning
my greens to blight, leaving
animals once proud and determined
now abject and homeless;
caricature mascots.
It crawls over my buildings, infesting
every room and board, making
inhabitants into castaways
with the shore so near, so far.
And everything collapses under
the weight of its load, a gravity
far too serious for this light
head(ed) over heels,
a Hercules turned weakling,
bent knee and broken aspect,
an actuary who can’t reconcile his records
to account for the loss
of his greatest love.
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Hi Steve, lovely poem. I particularly liked the final Stanza.
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Thanks, Nikita. I’m not usually in the habit of mixing my metaphors in my poems, but it happened with this one when I got to the last stanza. I think it served as a nice juxtaposition, though. 🙂
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Mental Health is real! It is a modern day epidemic infected by the ways of this world. But pausing to find outlets like this (writing) and other spiritual ways is an amazing gift to cope. Thanks for stopping by my blog. You got my support brother!
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Thanks, Jenn! That’s right, and it’s how I use my blog. I suffer from long term depression and use my blog cathartically. Thanks for taking the time to check it out, you’ve also got my support 🙂
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Beautiful poem and one I can relate to well.
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Thank you, Savannah, glad you connected with it 🙂
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Yours words portray feelings so strong that it relates directly to the heart. Such a beautiful poem.
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Thank you, Manisha, your words are much appreciated 🙂
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Amazing how well you picture a feeling using only words
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Thank you so much! My poems make up for the fact that I can’t paint actual pictures at all. I painted the bathroom, but that’s the extent of it lol 😉
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