DEPRESSION IS FUNNY LIKE THAT

Shikha Tatwadarshi - Parashar

I am suspended from the sky

upside down

caged in my darkness

chained by my anxiety

moving to and fro

like a damaged clock

suspended in time.

Little griffons feast

on my decaying flesh

clean my bones

polish it with their spit

and my spilling blood.

—–

Something hurts.

I know it is not my broken flesh

my splattering blood

my disintegrating tissues

my tangled nerves.

Maybe my cracked soul

is trying to sew itself back together,

Maybe my brittle heart

is trying to piece itself together.

But it hurts.

—-

I am in my room

filled upto the brim with laughter and champagne

with dancing Chinese fairy lights

with peeling lemony yellow walls.

Nothing is happening but

everything is in chaos.

I am with everyone

yet lonely as a lost sparrow

watching the regale

from a hanging branch

outside the kitchen window.

—-

I can still taste the bitter…

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