Like A Sponge

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Depression is like a drug-

Not addicting

But I keep relapsing. 

I always think I'm getting better.

Then the sadness trickles in,

finding  its way to my brain,

From my brain to my heart-

Which soaks up emotion 

Like a dry sponge soaks up water.

Still, a sponge can only hold so much water,

Just like my heart can only bear so much despondency.

All it takes it one squeeze

before water is gushing from every pore.

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