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 Dec 2012 lil silver
Kelly Holmes
depression is not something beautiful
you would know if you knew
from someone close to you
maybe even first hand
you don't bother with things
they don't matter, nothing does
getting so close in your mindset
ready to go, to be with the earth but not of it
you don't bother with a smile when your home
the mess doesn't matter
the stains on your clothes from food that you spilled
again, don't matter
nothing does
in this moment in time
nothing matters
at all
I used to gaze with wonder at the stars
with a fleeting hope that they gazed back.
Perhaps I was the topic of their dinner-table talk!

But now I gaze with wonder at myself
I certainly am not who I once was--
shocked, astonished at how quickly

I became someone else, or rather
how I became everyone else.
I used to gaze with wonder at the stars.

Pity the stars have long since burnt out.

— The End —