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What Would I Say To My Depression? Poetry by R S Kendle CW: Mental Health
Clawing into me, grasping tight. Melting into me.
I recall hearing about that fish, The one where the male fuses into the female to mate.
I am a host. A walking sack of flesh and blood and bones. Fuel.
A pair of legs For this otherwise immobile stranger.
It is a terrible parasite.
It doesn’t seem to realise that if I stop It too will stop.
It cannot leap Body to body Flea-like.
To suck out the life of another.
If I crumple and wither It too, will perish.
I would speak to it, If I could.
Reply to that ceaseless drone That reminds me how worthless I am, Every waking minute.
But it has no ears.
It cannot hear my wails Pierce the silence of night The crinkling of my pill-packet.
My heart is blistered. Worn out from beating for two.
R S Kendle is a poet and writer from the north-east of Scotland. Instagram: @RSKendle