How To Come Out Of Depression?
The day the lightning struck my brain,
I could still remember the flashes in the mind,
The ground opened up for me to faint,
The thirst constricted the throat to find,
The water to drink and from the eyes,
The excruciating pain in the middle,
Of the head and the left of the chest,
The vivid memories of events that hid,
Replayed, rewound, replayed without rest,
The episode of maniac depression,
Germinated to a small plant,
I looked normal except my mind,
A word could take me to that playground,
Where I was bullied and beaten up,
An incident could draw the curtain,
For me to view the scene, one after another,
Before I entered the tunnel of depression,
I did have the feelings similar to the first event,
Memories danced mercilessly to captivate,
My feeble mind to think about the negative thoughts,
I was under the spell of this evil for a while,
Then I decided to destroy the evil that destroyed me,
As the psychiatrist wanted 400 ringgit per hour,
To listen and counsel me, the physician hovered,
The witch doctors were ready to chase out the devil in me,
I had decided to treat myself on my own,
I did not take any drugs or weeds to drown,
My fear, that I nurtured deep in my crown,
I involved with interactive activities to use my brain,
Learned a new language, read varieties of books,
I did not give any opportunity for my old memory,
To escape from the prison that I had built,
Though it was not easier to do than to preach,
I managed to evolve as a human,
with the healed wound, almost no scar.
poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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