Poem:

Dark shadows creeping; the sun enveloped

Within menacing shrouds of imminent gloom –

A shrinking spirit, once well-developed;

A lack of space, with no elbow room

A near-sighted vision of frightening doom –

     A fathomless depression!

A halting approach to values seeming

Woefully losing tracks of direction –

A nightmare intruding in a time of dreaming –    

The fabric of hope, split section by section –

       A fathomless depression!

The spirit once willing, subdued by the flesh

Deprived of its once protective defense –

Confusion and pain relentless enmesh

Oppressively making no definite sense –

Ongoing inertia  now and hence –

A fathomless depression!