Depression, One Size Fits All

The following two original poems by G. Laidlaw look at a condition nobody is immune from. (Even the dead can suffer from it. How many happy ghosts do you hear about?) If you've danced with this dragon, you know just how cruel a master it can be. If you haven't then you have no idea just how bad it can get. Pray it doesn't choose you.

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Gray Today

Drag a cloud across the Sun

Make it rain on everyone

Drain the colors leave just gray

Make the whole World go away

Crush the smile of a circus clown

Pull a rainbow to the ground

Crash an airplane every day

Make the whole World go away

Pour a flood across the Earth

Kill a dream before its birth

Pick a God and to Him pray

Make the whole World go away

Find this poor man take what's his

Make life harder than it is

Fill me up with shades of gray

Make the whole World go away

G. Laidlaw

To The Zoo

She stares into the mirror but she doesn't see her face

Her answer's getting clearer but her question's been erased

So she turns to the closet and picks out the yellow dress

That she burned with a cigarette the last time she confessed

To thoughts obscene

The dirty dreams

That fill the night completely with her screams

Somewhere deep inside herself she knows exactly what to do

Go To The Zoo

She puts on the yellow dress and stares into the mirror

Jumbled colors in a mess but her reflection's getting clearer

So she turns to the razor blade with its edge of gleaming steel

Draws lines across her arm in a moment all too real

Sanguinary rain

Crimson drops of shame

Fall upon her yellow dress

Paint a picture of her pain

Somewhere deep inside herself she knew exactly what to do

Go to the Zoo

G. Laidlaw

Depression Canada

Suicide

"Don't worry, be happy" - Meher Baba