"Still
More Questioning Depressions"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
6/08/07 6:30 a.m. pdt
Upbeat is
almost in sight round the bend
Happiness just out of reach
Living quite long yet why can't I learn
The lessons that life has to teach
Elation
and joy on the menu for sure
But the restaurant ran out long ago
A depressive disease, no one has the cure
Deep sadness runs where robust blood should flow
As soon
as the answers arrive they fade out
As soon as I think I am sane, I'm without
I still can't relate to the laughter and smiles
when nervous bothersome feelings arrive all the while
I will state
quite correctly
that sun follows dark
and that no one should feel as I do
I will preach life's devotion to
any and all
and ignore signs of low facing blue
Bright imagination
flutters away
Gladness not quite within grasp
My thoughts are not positive in the least
And I wait but depression longer lasts
I turn to
the page as I have for long years
But the words ache, pass difficult, slow
And the nagging lost feelings of care disappear
A dark hollow wind seems to blow
Happiness
is just out of reach
Upbeat unseemly to share
Did I learn those lessons that life had to teach?
Or is my cold soul ripped and laid bare?
Poetry
2007
