A Visit to Depression

by Joyce Nimely (Liberia)

A leap into the unknown Liberia

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With my eyes closed, the warm breeze of Liberia blew my broken bones, I sat down and stare at nature. Saw the beauty of the trees waving it branches, heard the birds chipping and spreading their wings so high. I stopped starring for a while and when I opened my eyes, I saw myself standing in the midst of unknown things. Saw a girl standing. She watched me with her deep brown eyes that looked like mine till I realized it was me! Strange huh?? She seemed pretty worried. With my hands shaking and my lips shivering as if I was standing unclothed in a snow, I walked up to this lost girl that looked like myself. "wha.. wha.. wha.... Wrong" I stuttered. With tears rolling down her cheeks she said these words to me "It hits different when I have to fake a smile Sorrow travels through my mind a thousand Miles Appears to the outside an angel but inside a coward Thunders and lightening are not louder than my cries Rolling on my bed at night, mind full with lots of why's I have no where to find relief all I have are bunches of misbelieves So I bleed my knuckles, bite on my nails and cut through my vains I feel rejected, unwanted, neglected and stressed Isomnia is my new obsession, I'm afflicted by depression. Life's irony pulls me down a deep pit. They say it's what I sore so I have to reap it They say I'm too dark to be gold, too unsure to be sure and too young to be bold Let me walk you through, it isn't about sunshines and rainbows anymore It's more about being stocked between a rock and a hard place Having your past hits you in the face and memories that cannot be erase Feeling a hole in your heart but the emptiness cannot be filled Letting go of someone or something that cannot be replaced I'm tired of losing battle and fighting life struggles Never believe growing up was so hard till I got on this path I'm just gonna give up, wishing it would all just fade away Wishing to become a baby again, to feel numb to life's diseases Hoping that someday, some miracle would just mend my broken pieces I'm tired of trying, see even the birds gets tired flying Dont let them fool you, growing up is so cool till you you gets trap in life's cold pool." After the last words, she disappeared. It was a nightmare because everything this girls said is how society had made me feel, how depression had held a whole of me. I then woke up and realized that it was just a reality of me in the unknown with depression getting a whole of me but nobody seems to know that I visit or maybe he(depression) visits me always not wanting to set my soul free!!!