A prisoner inside the terrible
translucence of depression.
I rage, savaging the walls with my fists.
I weep, pressing my face
against the Invisible,
so lonely for laughter,
for deliverance, for my old life.
But my prison will not yield,
only keeps pulsing, keeps holding…
until I surrender,
the sac breaks,
and contractions begin.
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