I re-surface.
Posts Tagged ‘melancholy’
If I drown
Posted in Depression, Life, Poetry, tagged drown, melancholy, resurfacing, sadness, sleep, wakefulness on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stuck/UnStuck
Posted in Depression, Journaling, Love, tagged apathy, fear, melancholy, over analyzing, sadness, stuck on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Move! Get up, go, forward, just do it. Mulling, analyzing, caught in my story, attached to my bed. If there was a mood monitor, like those heart rate monitors next to hospital beds, mine would be a flat line right now. Stuck. Can’t. Get. Un Stuck. Two days and nights sleeping then one staying awake [...]
Bahadur Shah Zafar & his poetry
Posted in India, Water, tagged Bahadur Shah Zafar, I'm the light on no one's eye, melancholy, Mughal empire, na kisi ki aankh ka, urdu on February 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The original: naa kisii kii aaNkh kaa nuur huuN, naa kisii ke dil kaa qaraar huuN jo kisii ke kaam na aa sake, maiN vo ek musht-e-gubaar huuN main nahin huun naghma-e-jaaN feza, koii sun ke mujh ko karega kya main baRe birog ki huuN sada, maiN baRe dukhoN ki pukaar huun meraa rang ruup [...]
A poem and a lesson
Posted in Buddhist, Grief, Life, Love, Meditation, Poetry, tagged Ajahn Brahmavamso, angst, choice, dharma talk, happiness, lesson, marriage, melancholy, partner, possibilities, sadness on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am shivering in the cold. May I open your skin, crawl inside, wrap you around my body like a warm blanket? I can hear the content in your voice, the Happiness. It sickens me. whywhywhywhywhywhywhy Why did you not choose me? I am happy. For you. Fly away. Last night I listened to Ajahn [...]
chemical un-loneliness
Posted in Poetry, tagged anger, anti-depressant, cymbalta, Depression, melancholy, sadness, serotonin on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that one little pill can make me happy? sadmadglad. little white chemicals, more serotonin in my brain, less sadness in my heart, more smiles, less moments of feeling overwhelmed. If I forget those little chemicals, I drop into a pit of depression. Spinning around with loneliness, aimless, anger, melancholy. I bought my [...]
An ode to Billoo
Posted in Cats, Grief, Love, Pets, tagged billoo, cat, kitty, melancholy, missing, siamese mix on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Billoo is my love, my sweetie, my guddu, my baby, my darling. I miss her dearly, her soft paws, her meows which were more like a baby’s wail, how she’d wake me up in the morning, that first night when she pulled my hand with her paw and pressed it against her belly to show [...]