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[title] => Annus Horribilis
[time] => 2010-04-09 07:28:47
[hometext] => This poem is dedicated to three YPDC members; Lisa, Selene and Duff who for some ungodly reason encourage me to continue with my mediocre poetry. With friends like these we can all overcome depression.
[bodytext] => Annus horribilis It’s been a difficult year when all’s said and done The loneliness, darkness with no sense of fun. Depression is sneaky with such cunning stealth It enters your body and robs it of health. My mind split in two and both disagreed What was best for each other and what we did need? So one hid in the shadows afraid to come out Whilst the other went crazy just wanting to shout. The only agreement was to both hide away, To work in the night and then hide in the day. Their lives ever shrank to the scale of one room A world with no friends, just pure sterile gloom. One was agoraphobic who would not go out This caused the claustrophobic to scream and to shout. One shunned all friends as he hated himself And the other put his buddies away on a shelf. In time there followed the inevitable breakdown When doctors were called in to patch up this meltdown. There followed the treatments, the words and the tears But eventually both confronted their fears. The process continues, there is no quick fix, Just well oiled and well-trusted cathartic tricks At least the two are together as friends And if one does indeed push the other one bends. The one thing they agreed on was turning to writing Since this seemed to stop them from eternal fighting. Now they have friends Selene, Lisa and Duff, But both have agreed that this can’t be enough. A pact has been drawn up and sign it they will: To stay free from illness and keep writing still. People must know that depression is rife And tolerance and kindness reduces this strife. “People who suffer from depression deserve a life too” Alistair Muir 08/04/2010 [comments] => 2 [counter] => 316 [topic] => 55 [informant] => aliopterix [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 20 [ratings] => 4 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => dedicatedpoems )
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