I woke up this morning with this in my head. I posted it today and in return I received sympathy and concern which felt really weird because that's not where I was going with this at all. Its just art. Just a piece of poetry that I thought was an interesting way to describe how depression feels.
I'm so grateful to those who reached out and are concerned. But why do we assume that poets and songwriters are writing about themselves? We don't do that with book authors do we? If we did Steven King would be locked up.
I'm a writer. I write from my own point of view and experiences. However, I also write from a position of empathy. Sometimes what I write has very little to do with me. Its a strange thing to expose yourself through art. It can be weird and uncomfortable. Sometimes people get it and sometimes they don't.
But I'll keep doing it because somewhere maybe there is someone that needs to see it or hear it and say to themselves....."finally someones gets me"
