Tag: depression

Like the Poet and the Poem


Dark Child


They Lingers Like a Death Wish

Thoughts Like a Lost Suicide entombed within the back pages of the haunted mind……. Crawl out of the darkness just to crawl back inside The light offering no comfort only burns my eyes Standing in the shadow of illusion, the mirror telling lies Hides the sorrow, the clenched teeth, this half smile I want to…


Dear Butterflies

I begged of the butterflies
            “lend me your wings”
so that I might dance
on the edge without
strings, dream without
limits even if only for a
minute it means that
I can be free

1/3/2018 ©Debbie Berk
animation is my creation.


The Beautiful Decay

Here I abandon all false and
hopeless hope
or rather it has abandoned me
either way I don’t know
but have accepted its ghost
and am I content
among the beautiful decay
of these gardens gray
full of my favorite
fading flowers
more vibrant now,
more alive
without the deadening
sound of colors
screaming their
deceit and lies
yes truth is here
ever telling in the bones
and the broken wings
of butterflies
with no reasons left
to fly yet still they soar
somewhere in the soul of
my darkest skies

1/2/2018 ©Debbie Berk
Image created by me, the skull is my own edited photo.