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On The Edge

It sits there lurking at the back of your mind

Waiting for that moment when it comes from behind

Whatever emotion you’ve just come through

Pushing past thoughts in an orderly queue

The blackness of thought, the start of a spiral

Generating negativity before going viral

It just takes one thing to push you over the edge

And there you stand on a precipice, on a ledge

Not in the physical world but up there in your mind

With no outward symptoms for people to find

Or help you with demons that fight in your head

But you’re alone with your thoughts and filled full of dread

Its difficult to assess the negativity

When to the outside world you appear to be

Operating just as you did before

Before these black thoughts came to the fore

Those close might notice some of the signs

That your thoughts are becoming much more malign

But its likely to be such a subtle change

That they may not notice anything strange

Or be able to provide positive interaction

To counteract these waring mental factions

But these demons they’re clever they just chip away

At your personality, day after day

It’s a skill that they’ve honed and they do it so well

Leaving you hollow, just a fragile shell.

◄ Male Bonding

Digital Distraction ►

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Robert Mann

Thu 21st Jan 2016 19:21

That's great Chris - point him in the direction of my blog for more on the subject.
Rob

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Chris Briggs

Thu 21st Jan 2016 18:26

Thanks Rob, the poems not from my own perspective, I listened to a friend of mine talk one day about how depression started out as a speck of dust and how it takes over. He came through it but lives with the spectre that the speck of dust is lurking there ready to grow, I said I would write and share this for him.

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Robert Mann

Thu 21st Jan 2016 15:13

Chris - one of my 'favourite' subjects and one that I share on a regular basis. Getting thoughts down in writing definitely is cathartic. Stay strong mate.
Rob

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