Poetry: Depression relies on a mindset of despair

Without a purpose for our life, we can just float along in our depression, filled with despair, and regret. John died, as he had no purpose, nor reason for his living.

John was having one of his depressive moods.

He walked around his house brooding attitudes.

John was an intelligent gent, wasting his talent.

He was angry. He never knew what love includes.

It was not inactivity that made John depressed.

He was always busy, but just not sure of its value.

Should he be doing this rather than that that,

or should he rest from his idle pursuits to plan.

We are all alone, and nothing much can come close.

John was happy enough to live, but he was not living.

"Depression is not something humanly real in myself,"

he would say. "I am not depressed, only misdirected."

John smiled to himself, as he had never done before.

At the core of himself, John rested before he swore.

None of this makes any sense to my life of just pain.

I have hated life all my life, why not the rest the same.

Then, John sat down with a thud onto his easy chair.

His heart stopped beating, he died, there and there.

His wife found him many hours later, dead, so dead.

Depression can reach past our minds, and kill our heart.

John was only 63, years of age. His life was over, not begun.

John had lived not for himself, nor for others, but for God.

But, he had waited and waited for God to live for him too.

God never appeared in his rear until he died, life left untried.

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Reviews

[Jim of Earth]

Get busy living or get busy dying. Escaping the mind trap and joining the living is more than some can endure. Nice write!

[zennedpen]

Yes, it's hard to just sit on the fence. Life itself tends to push us towards the way that we are leaning towards too.

[Jim of Earth]

I fight depression with a gratitude list. I am truly blessed but rarely see it. Keeping busy and focusing on being helpful to others keeps me from falling too deep into the dark pit of despair.

[zennedpen]

Yes, the pit is always there, and sometimes it can catch us unawares. A strategy such as yours certainly can help though.

[John the Baptist]

Depression can compromise the immune system. It is in more ways than one a life threatening illness.

[zennedpen]

Yes, and it prevents us from living a full, and a happy life too, enjoying the living. We enjoy very little, when we are depressed.