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The Blue of Depression

Let it be Lapis Lazuli

By Debra RohacPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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Lapis is the "sky stone"

If my depression must be blue

Let it be lapis lazuli

Buried deep in the sands of Afghanistan

Veined with blood and wet with tears

Passed hand to hand and pressed -- into the eye of a clay Sumerian

If my depression must be blue

Let it be lapis lazuli

Braided into the beard of a Pharaoh

A broken and repaired funeral mask

Worn by time and the worry of a mummy’s hand

If my depression must be blue

Let it be lapis lazuli

Ground down in monastery at Dahlheim

Inhaled and licked to the sharpest of points

Mixed with the saliva of prayer into a hardened dental plaque

If my depression must be blue

Let it be lapis lazuli

Crushed and powdered in the studio of Tiziano Vecelli

Brushed into the deepest crevasses of Mary’s dress

Then displayed for all to see in some very public museum

If my depression must be blue

Let it be lapis lazuli

Chipped and aggregated into the Phoenix Sky Harbour

Swirled and cemented into a DNA strand

Not fixed into my genetic make-up, destined and chronic

Debra Roháč

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