CURTAIN CALL

Maybe you feel alone? Maybe you feel worthless? Maybe you think you waste everyone’s time with your problems/feelings. Maybe just breathing fuels your feelings of despair and the only thing you can manage is sleep.


 


Congrats…


 


You probably won the depression lottery. It is estimated nearly 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression according to the WHO.


 


Social stigma is one of the biggest factors preventing effective care.


 


Do the whole world a favor and be proactive with those you love. Let them know they are NOT alone.

 

Depression doesn’t respect the holidays.  It is the Grinch.  It is the Scrooge. It is the devil in a red Santa suit come to steal all your beautifully wrapped silver linings.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Phone Number
1-800-273-8255

All the channels

Dance with static

As she sits silent

Inhaling the dark

Perspective fuzzy

And Vodka blurred

Turning memories

Of laughter into

Cries of terror

Blood drips slow

Into gelatin pools

Sticky strands of

Plush synthetic

Absorbing it all

She waits for

The show to start

The symphony

Of the dead

Bones cracking

Knick Knack

Paddy whack

As the world

Crushes her

Underneath

Everything

And pulls

The curtain

Closed

 

Tagged: Depression, despair, Holiday, manic, Mental Health, POEM, Poetic, POETRY, suicidal, Suicide