My daughter has written a book on postpartum depression and ask that i write some poetry for her book. I wrote this from the perspective of one in the grips of depression.


Inside The Storm

Here comes the darkness
Here comes the gloom
Here come the walls closing in the room
There goes the laughter
There goes the sun
There goes life coming undone

Where is the light
Where is the smile
Where is the hope
Why all the trials
How can a moment last for a year
How can joy change to tears

When will the storm come to its end
When will the day become a friend
When will the night die to the day
When will God show me the way

Why all the sadness
Why all the pain
Why's all purity left with a stain

kathy lockhart
4/25/07

 





Poetry by Kathy Lockhart
Read 898 times
Written on 2007-04-26 at 02:14

dott Save as a bookmark (requires login)
dott Write a comment (requires login)
dott Send as email (requires login)
dott Print text


liz munro The PoetBay support member heart!
How DID i MISS this!
2007-11-16


Phyllis J. Rhodes
A beautifully educational poem
that touches all the cruel facets of
postpartem and all depressions.
Postpartem depression is so cruel
because it robs mothers of those
first wonderful weeks and months
of bonding with their miracles, those
llittle human beings that lived and sprung
from their bodies. It robs the babies too
of that special, most important boding
tme. This wonderful poem goes a long
way to explain the utter cruelty of that
lost time and the helpless ness of the
mother to do anything about it.
2007-04-26


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
Depression comes and it sits like a big black cloud - very expressive of those times - well done to your daughter also for writing about post partum depression - a friend of mine suffered badly with that for a long time - and as a result of it, was told she should never have another baby.

Elle x
2007-04-26


penfold18
Any type of depression is a form of hell on earth, and with out help will be difficult to deal with if not impossible, your description within this poem is very apt, your daughter must be as proud of you as you are of her.
2007-04-26


Lourdes
Postpartum depression almost took my life at 21 .
I still remember the darkness with shivers .
This poem both beautiful and hard to read , you did so excellent in your descriptions .
I also liked the form of this write , short , shifting and the last line _ makes this write a very important one .
Thank you mother
for this excellent piece .
2007-04-26


Jessica Rexroat
well put. the last line is my fav.
2007-04-26


kath
--- sorry .... I meant to say "spared me this "


// kath
2007-04-26


kath
your daughter is doing a very good thing writing about this ... I belive it must be hell to become depressed after you have given birth to a child .... it is in those times we can really see what our bodies chemistry can do with us ...

and so many people suffer and feel ashamed for having depressions in all walks of life it is a terrible sickness and it is not something you just "pick yourself up from" it is a chemistry thing...

your poem is really good and I belive it gives a peek into this state ... I am happy life seapred me this

please send my best wishes and well done to your daughter ...

katherine
2007-04-26


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
Katherine this poem is a classic and it should be awarded an editors choice a wonderful and accurate of thestate into which ppl descend with this condition marks your awesome skill as a writer

hugs for you and well xxxxxxx ylk Michael
2007-04-26


Daybreaker
Oh yes, that's what it's like.

Heartfelt description and a good rhytm.
2007-04-26