• Left, right, up down
    Everywhere
    Inescapable
    It surrounds me

    Some days it closes in
    Others it backs off
    Teasing, making me think it may disappear finally
    Something happens; suddenly it tights even close

    The comforting words of friends
    Only trying to help
    Can pull the circle in
    Confining me, choking me

    Yet this is not the intention
    Tears, sobs
    They may come for a while
    Yet it does not help

    They do not stay even if I wish it
    Even if I try and force them to
    They slip through my clenched fingers
    Is this depression?