Tag Archives: despair
There/Not There
slipping down reaching clawing wet hands bloody hands reaching grasping in the slick slip mud slide down the pitch right to the edge right to the edge hang on hang on hang on hold on too late falling done falling … Continue reading
Posted in On Depression, Poetry
Tagged black dog, depression, despair, hate, mental illness, misery, motherland, poem, poems, poetry, sadness, self esteem, self loathing, trigger, writing
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After The News
She had run, sick with grief, all the way home. The announcement had come without regard to the news cycle; she wasn’t ready for something like this. A hundred thousand thoughts and feelings ran through her. Anger like fire. Misery … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Flash
Tagged cat, cat jones, catastrophe, catastrophe jones, despair, fiction, flash, flash fiction, grief, jones, loss, love, the blue-eyed man, writing
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Pile Up
I let the cards pile up, the red flag notices, the warnings. I let the shouts, the anger, the snarling hate pile up. I let it fill. I let it fill me. I let it over- flow. These are the … Continue reading