daily mantra

one day your blood will stop pumping.
one day your lungs will cease to inhale,
exhale.
your eyes will no longer see,
or blink.
nor will your lips move in speech
or tremble to kiss another pair.
your skin will shrivel up and decay.
and your body will grow cold.

repeat this every day to remind yourself to live.

pursue the darkness

if you spend your life pursuing happiness,
not only will you fail
but you will learn nothing. nobody learns from happiness.

pursue the darkness.

the fog

depression is a ceiling of fog that ever-looms above, barely clearing one's head.
the fog,
just low enough
and thick enough,
it forces you under the water (you've been floating in like limbo)
and there is nothing you can do to stop yourself from drowning.