A sad and permanent pessimism is all pervasive and sits within my soul.

It is always there and is created by a number of circumstances relating to environment, social and economic circumstances and the increasingly tenuous state of the country – Australia – and the world in which we live.

THERE IS NEVER ANY BLUE SKY

Blue sky,

Has fled from my life.

Replaced,

By ever thickening,

Ever darkening,

Clouds of despair.

From bright light,

To dimming.

Then penumbric reflection,

Of dusk.

Deepening,

Into the black night,

Of depression.

Like an Arctic winter,

The sun,

No longer rises.

My life,

Is without shadow,

Without illumination.

I am

Lost in tundra darkness,

24/7/365.

 

More and more,

I realise,

Extinguishment,

Is the only escape.