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| early autumn grape leaf |
Depression is a hell of a thing
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| spider on button bush |
I don't know how other people experience it,
I withdraw, I medicate, I lose touch.
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| fungus and lichen, oak stump |
I lose people, sometimes forever...
and that is sad too.
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| eastward long view |
It's not relaxed, just anxiety, endless and paralyzing.
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last of the lilies
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It rises like a wave, and I tread water until it recedes.
Sometimes that can take years.
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| wild aster in the poison ivy |
I learn how to treat it, I medicate it, I get some help (I'm fortunate)
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| wild aster |
Eventually I start to wade out.
Sometimes that can take years too.
