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• Casualty of Depression
  by dimarie

  Your eyes have lost their lustre, / Your smile I see no more, / Your lack passion for all around you, / Your depression is eating my soul…...

  Some people who are very dear to me are goin thru the depths of depression… / as much as I will be there for them, and do all i can… / sometimes i feel i am a bit of a casualty of their despair… / my own feelings and pain and issues are pushed aside, kept hidden, so as to give them what they need…. / I cant be there if i’m focusing on my own issues… / but sometimes it all gets a bit much / but we will get thru it / no matter how long it takes… edited to add…. / I understand depression, and its power… / those of you who know me, will knhow of my own depression that I have had since i was a child…and my utter contempt for my own depression, and denial and defiance of it that i go thru daily to the point where quite often i can come across as quite positive…full of life. / Its usually an act…to a degree…. / no words i speak are lies, i mean all of what i say, i see the good in all things, and its thru this that i have been chewed up and spat out too many times to count / and i have forgiven some of those who did wrong onto me / but others i havnt been able to… / this despair of my own, is always brimming just under the surface / always there waiting for me to get knocked down even slightly so it can consume me… / and so it does sometimes / but then the highs of life will kick in and i feel so great and truly positive and i have love and smiles for everything…. / nothing is really that bad…. / not lack of funds or food… / or peoples shitty moods / or dealing with all the past… / but it doesnt last / its never strong enough to coax my loved ones out of their own despair / and at times i have to leave / breathe / because their despair is contaminating my happy delusions… it threatens…no it does…take the sweetness out….. / and they see it…they see me breaking… / and it kills them / and that kills me / and its such a bit if a twisted mess / But i am resolved to be there for them / be there to the end

• Auschwitz, USA (A Song to Sing at Bedtime)
  by Final Form Fallen Angel

  American you see: / We can not clean ourselves / Of this…

  The title pretty much says it all…

• Casualty
  by whiterussian

  The onset was gradual, like a case of the flu coming on, but the epidemic spread like wildfire through rain starved grassland.

  This is my entry for the vice/versa / Inspired by Brendan Ninness’ Savage Membrane

• Soldier
  by Stephen J. Vattimo

  Soldier / What will be your spoils of war?

• Another Casualty, Another Life, Another Son
  by oscarelizondo

  Around five oclock this morning I picked up my newspaper off the driveway. / Saw the headlines and cried because there was nothing more I …

  It is very hard to grief the lost of a love one, but nothing like the inner feeling of a son at war.

• Coffee FIX
  by Emma Wertheim

  In this slick city of coffee drinking freaks (who are constantly taking leaks!), I often feel a pang of wonder at how many coffee casualt…

• Casualties of War
  by pocahantas

  Men go off to war / Every generation pays it’s dues / War does not discriminate / There are many ways to loose Some will live and some wi…

  As the wife of a 100% disabled Veteran I know all too well that there are / many casualties of any war.