Tag: depression
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Flicker To A Flame
When I first clicked this pic, I had thought to write a poem as an accompaniment to Inner Mounting Flames. But, as I sat here sipping my coffee and listening to “Road To Nowhere” by Ozzy Osbourne, a switch inside me flipped and I decided I’m just gonna speak my piece. “The wreckage of my…
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Thousand Yards (When In Rome)
Thousand yard stare Today Today, I ceased to care The fire burned me This life, it broke me This life rebuilt me In it’s own twisted, Perverted image When in Rome When in Rome When in Rome The lines on my face Each one, a scar A lesson How it truly is How it must…
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Just Another Stone In The Road
I love when WP lobs me a softball Makes it really easy. 😄 I only have to go back a little over a year to when I lost my job. Everything was going along perfectly fine, and then some mistakes were made, and next thing you know, bam! I was out on my ass. What…
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Fading Light
I can see it I can feel it Doors closing Walls crumbling Everything Collapsing All around me Silence Desolation Darkness Light fading No hope No cry for help Not even A whisper No one cares Anyhow Not even Me ©2025, The Beginning At Last
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The Perils of External Validation
Note: Something I read today brought this old post to mind, so I decided to put it up again. Changed the featured image and made some small edits, but the piece remains unchanged beyond that. Everyone loves to be loved. It’s just a simple fact of life. We humans are social creatures and we need…
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The Subtle Art of Giving Up
A momentary lapse For a moment I forgot I had found the will to fight And then I asked myself for what? Swim against the tide Or climbing up a hill I thought it paid to try But I find I’ve had my fill Chasing down a dream But I found it’s just a joke…
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All Too Easy
This one’s a piece of cake. I’d have started looking for a job the second I had that feeling in my gut that things were going to go terribly awry. If I had just listened to my instincts and started looking to get the hell out of Dodge, I might not have been sick and…
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All this time…
Wasted. I’ll give the preemptive warning now: this is probably going to be all over the map. 😄 I don’t know if it’s this roller coaster I am on lately or what, but I feel like I am all over the freaking map where time is concerned. In theory, I should, and do, have way…
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Peaks and Valleys
Peaks and valleys, they abound Finish one, another round Always climbing, never stops Climb again to reach the top Tired, sore and feeling lost Is the climbing worth the cost? Staring up, a peak so high Don’t think you’ll ever touch the sky But still you try, God only knows Pelted by the freezing snows…
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There Comes A Time
There comes a time in every life Cut so deeply by the knife Sliced so deeply to the bone A greater pain you’ve never known A state of shock as there you lie A look of panic in your eyes As claret flows in floods abound You think of all you’ve lost and found Before…
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Idle Hands
Idle hands and active mind Wander through a life unkind In a hole and in a haze Wandering through a twisted maze And though I try to leave this place Reality is in my face Mocking me at every turn A secret I have yet to learn Don’t want to scream don’t want to shout…
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5 Things To Improve Your Mood Right Now
Mood swings can be a funny thing, can’t they? Sometimes something happens that immediately changes your mood from good to bad. Sometimes the cause is obvious. Perhaps you got some lousy news or you smacked your head on the car door. But mood can be an insidious little devil too. It can creep up on…
The Beginning At Last 