A menagerie of melancholy emotions
Confounds the dreamless state of mind
A whirlwind of images lost at sea
While storm clouds scamper by
Incarcerated within unscalable walls
Hiding away from the world
A conscious that’s broken and can’t be repaired
My demented state – unfurled
Kevin Parish 
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Thank you! It was such an odd, dark, strange poem, but my muse… What do you do? Ha
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I think I recognise this state of mind, bumped into it just this morning…
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Yikes… I hope it was only a bump! ;-)))
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Nothing broken…
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Whew!
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This a wow, Kevin! Poignant but beautiful.
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Thank you, Winnie!
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You’re welcome, Kevin!
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Oooh, really shadowy!
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My muse bumbs off the beaten path from time to time… My wife is usually not a fan, but… ;-)))
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You don’t appear to be the “dark” type. I’m mystified that you can write of such despair.
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Oh… I can write and have written, not published, very, very dark poetry. One such poem is what got me out of a funk after a break-up. It was then that I realized writing was a release. Did I mention very, very dark! So much so that I even had to scratch my head and say, “huh?” Ha
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I think I get it. Sort of like allowing yourself ten minutes of unbridled grief – sobbing, screaming, etc. for ten minutes a day (then saying “enough” and going on with your day) until the depression leaves. (Please don’t ask me how I know about that method…)
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Oh, I’m sorry! No, it really just comes out whenever I say, hmmm, let’s write something dark, and, BOOM! There it is. ;-))) Virtual smiles and hugs if they help! Oh, and I saw Road Runner… He told me to tell you, “meep-meep!” Ha
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Oh boy! Have I been here a time or two…geez!
Great capture of feeling lost and broken Kev!
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