“BLUE”

Dedicated To Everyone With ME And FM

“”Depressed”, “unhappy”, “sad”, “low”, “blue”,

All the things one ought not to feel,

Or, at least, ought not to admit to,

But chronic illness is a wound, a weal.

If “Energy is eternal delight”,*

Enforced inactivity is eternal blight.

The spirit is killed, the body stunted,

The soul tortured and the mind blunted.

So very much has been taken from me,

So very much for which I grieve,

Life seems very often not much of a deal,

And something I could now take or leave.

Often, it is impossible to bear,

A tormented detainee on a treadwheel,

Torturously trudging through intractable days,

Desperately trying to find energy -

To do something, to go somewhere....

But, what alternative? What choice? What to do?

“”Depressed”, “unhappy”, “sad”, “low”, “blue”.…

* “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, William Blake

Ffion