<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Depression</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My liking for life has been stolen, <br>A thief came and took it away; <br>A visitor bent on destruction, <br>A burglar from hell, you might say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see via dark tunnel vision, <br>With the edges so dim and opaque; <br>My senses have been all but flattened, <br>My sanity now is at stake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see nothing good in the present, <br>My past is a far nicer place; <br>Of the future I may have been due to, <br>I see not a feasible trace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The burden of living is heavy, <br>So heavy, and hauling me down; <br>A quagmire of dark contradictions, <br>Swamping my smile with a frown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I decide to be done with this torment, <br>And make the decision alone; <br>I threaten the thief with eviction, <br>In the midst of my mind-battle-zone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almost robbed of all mental possessions, <br>I still know what's wrong and what's right; <br>The deceiver, in all of his glory, <br>I'll fight and I'll fight and I'll fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the sword of the truth I then stick him, <br>With the shield of my reason, deflect<br>All his arrows of poisonous lying, <br>His falsehood and fear, I reject.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now my liking for life is returning, <br>The enemy forced to retreat; <br>The hope in my heart, reappearing, <br>The thief? he lies dead at my feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written June 1995</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Carter+Brown">John Carter Brown</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419211" data-title="Depression de John Carter Brown" data-description="My liking for life has been stolen, A thief came and took it away; A visitor bent on destruction, A burglar from hell, you might say. I see via dark tunnel vision, With the edges so dim and opaque; My senses have been all but flattened, My ..."></div> </div> </div>

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