Like many people, I have turned to poetry when I was depressed. I need to.

The result, Oddly enough, was a poem. It helped me to know exactly what was going on. Are those poems sharable.

I guess so.

But I think it is important to go back and edit all poems, especially “I am Sad” poems. For many reasons. But one of those is to make sure you use images, sensory information, and a description that no one else has.

Are my poems that? I will let others be the judge. But I must strive to write words that fit the hole in someone else’s heart (and hope to fill up my own).

(Below is my poem 3 weeks after. Below that I will show my first draft.

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#creatorsearchinsights Three Weeks After. #depression #poem #poemsforyou

♬ original sound – Thomas Cannon

3 Weeks

3 weeks after

I wore depression

like an invisible headdress

my body adjusted to it.

By concentrating on

keeping it perched 

Atop my head

I went about my day

3 months after

I wore a rain jacket

that contained the rain

within me

I grew fond of

my cold raisin skin

dimpled like armor

3 seasons after 

I consumed all the depression

I could hold in my cupped hands

So I walked the dog

in the dance party of a snowfall

and felt light enough to lift my head.