Depression

Have you ever tried to buoy
someone up who is depressed?
Doesn’t matter what you say
you can never lift
the sadness from her face

she can be entertained
for a little while but then
that horrible darkness returns
and forces her back to bed.

Why isn’t there someone to take care of her?

Some say it’s a chemical reaction
others that she is self-centered
but maybe it is a grief deep inside

no bauble can lift it from her memory
tears for the littlest things.
doesn’t want to be left alone
yet impossible to be around.

Spiders weave cobwebs in the corners
is it wrong to take the life of someone
who doesn’t know how to live?

I try to be a funny clown
perhaps it’s time to go outside
plant flowers or play a game

Who knows?

Maybe something might click
a light will shine on her soul
crested under a giant wave
ready to wash her away

In her sorrow her heart might stop
better take time for a grand finale
and scrub her whole world clean

Is it my sin, this despair?

Maybe it is time to leave,
there’s no need for both of us to expire,
lost in a world where no hope can survive.