Description: Write a poem about living with depression
One poem per member.
Written in any form
20 lines or less
Date Due: June 30th 2024
Prize: 25 Dollar Amazon Gift Card, three-month premium, Recognition on your profile and published in our anthology.
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Winning Poem
A Way Out
Submitted by Rula
As night pulls down its wild dark curtains
And heavy eyelids drop lazily,
I ponder with spider-like loomed shadows,
Thoughts torture my broken, weary soul.
Everything around my room plays tricks;
Shadows with shattered hearts wander,
Carrying bloody, slaughtered dreams,
All howl, moan in pain, "that's insane, that's insane."
I seek a way out, is there no escape?
The door's locked with heavy chains.
Windows, it seems, are all covered with tar,
Behind the sill, bars add weight.
Then more spirits seep in, multiplying,
From nowhere, to heighten the scene.
I try to cry, but my own voice chokes me,
Then a louder voice declares, "There is no way out