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Depression


They say depression

is a literal black cloud

leaching the light

out of our pure white souls

 

Yet I disagree

Our souls are both white and black

A beautiful swirl

A yin and yang

 

And depression is their overmixing

When white and black

Come to close

Mix too much

 

Lifeless grey is formed

Neither white nor black

Neither alive nor dead

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