Wellbeing | Emotions
Depression Chains
Part 3: A Poem In The Series “Unemployed, Oh No!”
Broken… Shattered… Depressed! A whirlpool of emotions slowly dragging you down, deeper and deeper — into a bottomless, dark, dreary pit. “Unemployed, oh no!”, swirls continuously in your mind, like a stuck gramophone — a refrain — over, and over again!
Lying broken, in pieces, icy cold — feeling sorry for yourself, over, and over again! Peering from your dark spiraling tunnel at a dark world outside. Sitting alone in your self-inflicted comfort zone, loneliness a silky-slick comfy blanket protectively wrapped around you.
Not wanting to do anything, or see anyone! Hoping for them to contact you, to let you know all will be ok, the silence slithery — dragging you slowly, down! Lying broken, in pieces, icy cold — in depression chains!
Applying for jobs, to hear you’re too old
— a refrain —
Nest egg savings swished up by a hungry swirling tornado. You — are a broken scattered ruin! Your — ego bruised by a refrain.
You’re self-image melting away silky soft-serve ice cream on a hot, sunny, summer’s day, dripping slowly, meltingly mocking you.
— a refrain —
ever so slowly, oh, so slowly; a cringing cesspool of nothingness. Tucking into mounts of sweet treats, feeling a little bit better again, you do! a vampire-vicious cycle of self-loathing.
eating yourself into a near coma you are diabetic, — you fool! Where is the chocolate mousse? You muse — you fool! Who cares anyway, Is-life-worth-living?
Broken… Shattered… Depressed! A whirlpool of emotions, dragging you continuously down, deeper, as your dark, dwindling thoughts ponder unspoken thoughts — bound by depression chains!
— a refrain — “Unemployed, Oh, No!
“Unemployed, Oh No!” — A Series of Poems Part 1: The Meeting — A poem about the emotional impact of losing one’s job. Part2: Broken — An emotional reaction to becoming unemployed. Part 3: Depression Chains — The effects of depression in my daily life. Part 4: Light — Therapy for depression helped to see things differently. Part 5: Should I? — At last, a new you with hopes for a better future.
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