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But For The Dripping

In his life,

Joyous events

Have been like small drops of water

Dripping into a bound persons mouth

Barley keeping them alive.

 

Whom,

While being further tortured

By common experiences and lackluster events,

Wishing only to die,

Cannot

For the dripping...

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220August

Thu 25th Jan 2018 21:06

Thanks for the comments.
It was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the start of Eloisa to Abelard” by Alexander Pope - "In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever-musing melancholy reigns;..."

The line "ever-musing melancholy" being the more influential of all.

August

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Thu 25th Jan 2018 20:35

Deep, poignant.

Hannah

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Chris Hubbard

Thu 25th Jan 2018 06:08

This seems to me to be a deft and simple way to evoke the invisible walls that surround those who suffer from Depression, one of mankind's many scourges.

Chris

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