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Shadow
Posted: 21 November 2007
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Shadow
dark
too much loneliness
too much pain
everywhere
no remedy
life
light
to much passion
too much joy
in me
exhilaration
life
shadow
nothing
in between
depression
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 DeepBlueGypsy at 20:48 on 23 November 2007
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I'm sure many can relate to this poem. I wonder if you ment for the "light" stanza to even be sad and overwelmed? to words "too much" made it seem that the highs of life are too high and the lows of life are too low. Not so much as the yin and yang of life (the polarity of life) but the overwhelming aspects of each end of the spectrum- with nothing in between. Am I reading this correctly? Divi
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DeepBlueGypsy at 20:48 on 23 November 2007
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I'm sure many can relate to this poem. I wonder if you ment for the "light" stanza to even be sad and overwelmed? to words "too much" made it seem that the highs of life are too high and the lows of life are too low. Not so much as the yin and yang of life (the polarity of life) but the overwhelming aspects of each end of the spectrum- with nothing in between. Am I reading this correctly? Divi
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DeepBlueGypsy at 20:48 on 23 November 2007
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I'm sure many can relate to this poem. I wonder if you ment for the "light" stanza to even be sad and overwelmed? to words "too much" made it seem that the highs of life are too high and the lows of life are too low. Not so much as the yin and yang of life (the polarity of life) but the overwhelming aspects of each end of the spectrum- with nothing in between. Am I reading this correctly? Divi
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.JPG) Zettel at 00:37 on 24 November 2007
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Divi
You are reading it right. The battle against depression is to use the will to hold a balance between the tendency towards extremes. I'm not bi-polar but this poem perhaps describes depression from a bi-polar perspective. Whether Lithium for Bi-polar or SSRI's for other forms, these meds have the effect of evening out these extremes. The big problem though for manic depressives is that the highs are so special, so creative, so productive that many refuse the lithium precisely because it achieves balance at the expense of the joy. That's a helluva a choice. I know a philosopher who wont take meds because she cant work without the highs.
Although poetry is cathartic I don't use it as a means of therapy. This is a truth as I see it for me and others. If it works as a poem then it in part at least expresses this truth. And I guess that is worth writing down and sharing in case it touches someone else's experience. One of the the difficulties the very high percentage of the population who suffer from the family of 'illnesses' we call 'depression' is that people who don't suffer don't quite understand. Like people who don't drink and even those who do, don't quite understand the compulsion of an alcoholic.
Anyway too many words for a little poem that popped out unbidden. Thanks for the comment.
regards
z
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DeepBlueGypsy at 12:44 on 24 November 2007
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Z-sorry, my comments showed up in triplicate, I don't know why that happened. I have much to say about depression and mental illness, but I won't make this my platform, it is far too personal, so that you have shared this poem and have expressed yourself very well, I applaud you. Divi
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