I know pain. I know it well.
     I have descended into Hell,
It still beckons. Whispers softly,
In the night.

Darkness crawls into my dreams
And I struggle, breathless, scream
As I claw my way to wakeness.
              I.    Need.     Light.

It will steal into your soul
It will softly take control
       You won't know it
'Till its chains make fast your mind.

All you do, and all you say
Bleeds out to an ashen grey
All your thoughts must spiral inward,
         Undermined.

It's a cruel jest of fate
      For a soul that must create,
Those whose spirits fly
Have also far to fall -

The Abyss devours sight
'Till one no longer knows the light
          But it's out there...

Please believe me...

It still calls.

Search Google for "Creativity and Depression"

Depression, Women and Creativity

Seasonal Affective Disorder

www.depression.org

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon

The Noonday Demon website
(more links here)

This Isn't What I Expected : Overcoming Postpartum Depression
by Karen Kleiman, Valerie Davis Raskin

"The Abyss" lyrics © 2001 by C.W.
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