It’s World Mental Health Day today. Here’s a sonnet I wrote a while ago that attempts to say something on the subject of depression.
A Lack
Snap out of it! they say when you are sad
as if it was an attitude you chose,
a masquerade to show you unlike those
who do not see the darkness or the bad
in life; whose limbic pathways are not packed
with core beliefs adopted in your youth,
that tell you that there is no other truth
but you are stupid, useless, guilt-wracked
because you cannot see a brighter side
to life beyond the automatic black
that seeps into your thoughts. It is a lack
you know but lack of what you can’t decide:
a lack of understanding on their part,
a lack of practised joy inside your heart.
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