Black Dog!

Mick shares a very poignant poem which is particularly appropriate this week as the theme of the 2017 World Health Day campaign is depression.

Black dog!

Black dog bearing down on me,
Black dog comes to call,
Black dog brings a misery,
That affects us all.

Little petty incidents, seem to dwell therein,
Little trivialities become a major sin,
The mind will overblow them and not allow recall,
When the black dog comes to call.

Depression is the black dog, brings a bag of doom and gloom,
Has no part of life’s good living fun and laughter, have no room,
All around is saddened sorrow, all around is misery,
Not a brighter day tomorrow, but these things, don’t have to be.

Lift your head to see the daybreak, as a clean ‘unpencilled sheet’,
See that challenge there before you, make that challenge yours to meet,
Meet each day with brighter spirit, shake the sorrows that befall,
Turn your back and spurn depression, when the black dog, comes to call!

Mick
( Copyright Michael Westwood 2017 )

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Mick Westwood
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I am a 71 year old retired coal miner, who spent 30 years working underground. Having time on my hands, and in order to keep my brain exercised, I decided to try to write poetry and put down on paper some of my life experience, and my hopes, dreams and other thoughts. I also do a little gardening, but I am hopeless at housework. Much to my wife's displeasure.

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