BLEAK

BLEAK
(International Mental Health Day 2016)

Feeling bleak

As I start the week

Kind of blue

Is what I do

So dismal

Guess it’s hard to tell

How woeful

This mood’s dark pull

Feeling sad

It has got quite bad

I’m so down

Behind this frown

The black hound

Comes sniffing around

Sombre looks

’Cos anguish sucks

Feeling low

You just ought to know

Desolate

At so much hate

Thoughts wretched

Rattle through my head

Guess you see

Anxiety

Feeling black

Jolly thoughts I lack

All screwed up

Half empty cup

Sullen funk

Means my spirit’s sunk

Can’t you guess

I’m such a mess

Feeling grim

Like the light’s so dim

All gloomy

So hard to see

Crestfallen

All over again

Dejected

Joy rejected

Feel forlorn

Like my mind’s been torn

So downcast

This chasm’s vast

Mournful mood

I’m not being rude

Feeling bleak

Call back next week

Martin A W Holmes, Oct 2016