How healing is linked to seeing

Grey or grim you say

It’s still light

It darkens, it’s oblique

It’s still light

It casts a shadow

And it is still light

The relief in darkness

Of no satisfaction

No frustration

Darkness easily found

Without love

Without connection

The relief from disappointment

Deadened senses

Numbness so numb

That knows only detachment

And pushed away

Friendships

Silence

No connection

No feeling detection

On purpose

Apart.

In this poem I have tried to show what it's like to be depressed and how at times depression protects one from difficult feelings often related to broken connections and relationships. The poem also brings hope into it - it relates to twinkles of light that appear in darkness. The two pieces of artwork are two photographs of my son taken by me almost in darkness in our local park next to a streetlamp. The differences in tonality and editing choices are there to show how healing is linked to seeing. The stronger I am, the clearer I can see.