Oceans of Apathy
an abecedarian poem
Advertised happiness
Blaring from every direction
Counting the ways
Depression can be defeated.
Everyone says to smile more
Find ways to feel brighter inside
Genie-in-a-bottle remedies or
Holistic witchcraft to cure your mind.
I don't want a chemical soup and
Judging on my tears, tea won't help either.
Kinder than pills is the darkness
Luring me in with the promise of silence
Moorless and drifting in a sea of isolation
No one to see me at my worst
Only myself.
Pulling the blankets over my head
Quietly
Rotting, all the while hoping against hope for
Someone
To
Understand and
Venture into the oceans of apathy
Willing to see me as I am, and love me anyways
Xenial in their judgment
Yearning to bring me home, to bring a
Zombie slowly back to life
About the Creator
M. A. Mehan
"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
storyteller // vampire // arizona desert rat
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