Dear SSRI

Sometimes we need to give ourselves a helping hand

My mind is a bit dark

since you left

but my heart is lighter

I am glad to have myself back

Now, when I bump my toe

my blood is red again

I know you meant well

I know you only tried to help

but like unemployment benefits,

you were not my three-month,

or six-month

or nine-month plan B,

but you became plan A.

I need to face my darkness

fully alert

And if the light at the end of the tunnel

is an oncoming train

well, without your help

I'd just have to learn how to jump

and get this sedated piece of rump

into the fields to plant for a harvest - 

and shed these layers of couch potato life

who knows

maybe I'd be eating steak and fries

made by these, rigor mortis free hands.

Reviews

[V]

An interestingly written piece. Antidepressants, right? Well, to be honest I don't know much about this but the way you presented it reads creative and understandable. Facing one's dark thoughts without kind of blurring everything by these form of drugs is necessary and maybe also soothing, in a way. This one reminds me of a friend who took mood elevators because she felt down for so long, I know maybe a very slight form of substances that work as antidepressants but it just came to my mind.

[SleeplessVolcano]

= Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.....those who know these, would understand :)