POETRY | MENTAL HEALTH

Groundhog Day

Feeling the onset of a depressive episode

Self-portrait — C Macdonald

Here we are again

Draw the curtains

Force-quit the day

Tell my friends not to worry

We’ve seen this movie

She ends up okay

Her claws, they have a type of grip

Freshly painted to match her pearls

It’s still not enough to stop the slip

Into darkness, which fills her world

But there, is where she feels at home

Eyes closed, curled in a ball

If only she could understand

The madness of it all

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