I lean in

The plate is full

Overflowing with sweets drenched in honey

I want a bite

I slide a droplet

Of that sticky sugary bliss

Between my fingers

Imagining how it must taste

It’s so rich and aromatic

I resist.

I know my boundaries

Away I go

Lost in the sea of faces,

Pleasantries and fake smiles

I watch it rotate around the room

Admired by all

The plate slides my way again

I gaze over...

I stood and felt it vibrate all around me

The city

The clatter of pumps on concrete

Like typewriter keys

So many voices overlapping

Conversations merging and twisting into one

Vacant faces, lost in thought

A sea of color

The sidewalk hummed and screamed

As a train rushed underneath

The speed and power of the uptown 6

Shook the painted shut windows

Of the old church nearby

A breeze surg...

It walks beside me

Creeping along like a cat

Rubbing its body against my legs

Pressing it’s face into mine

Never far from me

Depression feels like children screaming

From behind dark closed doors

Depression is the sneer at bedtime

At the mention of silence and peace

Depression is eating fast food nearly daily

Sitting alone in parking lots

Depression is a missing pair of sunglasses

Feeling the r...