Challenge
Some words of comfort for someone going through depression.
Many people are struggling to get through this time. What would you say to them?
Put it into any poetry form of your choice. (Can even be stream consciousness)
What I’m looking for is good flow /rhythm, word choice, and a clear message.
Crab Bucket
Pratchett’s metaphor, not mine
a gravitational well impossible
to escape, whose brim eludes
each so desperate to ascend
blind to those deposed in their quest
none escape collective desperation
Forget the bucket.
The bucket never got anyone anywhere
good, it just made a prison
from a pail
Forget the bucket walls
aren’t always for scaling sometimes
they protect us, remind us
where we belong
safe-shielded instead of churning
that sometimes rest is better
than unheeding action we forget
to pause before we grab
we grab tight, forgetting we pinch
Forget the bucket.
Some things are not meant to be kept.