Are You in a Dark Mindset?
I ask are you in a dark mindset?
Do you only have you in this world?
That people will lie, cheat, betray you?
You withdraw from the world and stay curled?
Are you into the cult of the individual?
Don't believe you can trust anyone, or embrace?
Not ever let yourself go be vulnerable?
If so you're in a tightly wound, very dark place
Don Matthews November 2018
Provocative - but that could be the unspoken intent. We could be
in danger of reading too much into it regarding the subject matter or
the source. Typecast is a word used in showbiz to place certain
performers into certain categories.for employment/entertainment
purposes. Perhaps poetry has its own sort of typecasting? ?
If depression is anything like the trauma following an accident or specific negative event, then talking about it helps to "talk the trauma away". I agree there should be some sort of balance though.
We all need a shoulder to cry on sometimes but similarly we also need someone to help lift us up again after we have fallen.
Don,
This poem says what many often feel yet do not acknowledge. Those who are well intentioned and more vulnerable are those who find themselves in such a place. A poem which asks a big question.
Thank you for this
Keith
Brian - it would seem to me I am simply asking questions of an individual. If the answer is yes to each I draw the conclusion
'If so you're in a tightly wound, very dark place'
I am simply asking questions and drawing conclusions. Nothing to do with me personally.
Great, Don.
Let's hope we can all be vulnerable and trusting for at least some times in our lives.
<Deleted User> (18980)
Thu 29th Nov 2018 08:16
Don - I can't help but think you're playing devil's advocate here.
I often read that it helps those who suffer from depression to write about it. I don't really get this. Surely it would help more to write about happy, light, optimistic subjects.
Take me - I am a happy person...if I write about happy subjects does it make me less happy? No. If I write about unhappy things would it make me happy or sad? Sad probably. And I'd probably sink a bit deeper with every dark piece I wrote.
Yes Kate this is way off-range for me. Many of my ideas come from articles in the paper. Can't remember where it came from . Maybe it didn't? Maybe it originated in my mind...?
<Deleted User> (19913)
Thu 29th Nov 2018 07:39
This is a different feel for you Don. Really liked it.
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Taylor Crowshaw
Thu 29th Nov 2018 19:41
Thought provoking Don, so for me not too much of a departure from your usual style. Enjoyed it.