Who Has Not Known a Time

Who has not known a time
Where they felt to pull away
Distancing...bent to find
A pebble enlarged and gray

Cycling in depression
Creating but more pain
As a means of expression
Letting the life pulse wane

A negative thought
Perpetuates the cycle
Where one's continually caught
In a downward spiral

And alienated
From sources of help
One seems fully fated
For a time of hell

The abyss is deep
Can the covers hide?
As the body sleeps
Feelings still reside

thoughts from a transcript
"Christ-Centered Healing From Depression
And Low Self-Worth
Carrie Maxwell Wrigley, LCSW
BYU Education Week, August 15, 2005