Depression Comes with the Territory

August 26, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology.

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A psychological poem about a normal dose of depression:

Depression comes with the territory.
Evenings, one savors the fading light.
Perhaps one fears the coming night,
Recoiling from its mystery.
Even so, life still has grace.
Sunlight bursts into the room,
Singing like a thrush in June,
In passionate love with time and place.
One faces illness, pain, and death;
Nor would one leave this house of breath.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology
August 24: To Know Another, One Must Be Insane
August 25: Tonight, There Are No Stars
August 26: Depression Comes with the Territory