Snow Melt

Frosted Glass and My Overwhelming emotion

The June 6, 2013 prompts for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  are
an image prompt showing a small child looking through a frosted glass door or window
and "What emotion is the most overwhelming when you experience it?"

Frosted Glass

The child looks through a frosted glass door into a room, into a world, that is concealing, revealing, and distorting. She can see movement, shapes, and shadows, but she cannot make out features. The child is on the outside looking into the room, so anyone looking at the child from the inside would see a distorted image revealing a face, with distorted shadows of facial features. It is like looking through a curtain separating dimensions. It is like looking through a glass darkly, seeing but not seeing. It is a simile and metaphor for the soul while it is attached to the physical body.

The Image is that of a young child (I think a girl) looking through the frosted glass of a window or door.

My Overwhelming Emotion

Sometimes
depression overwhelms me.

Sometimes
it sends me into a darkness
that is all consuming.

Sometimes
depression is a shadow
darker
then the parsecs between galaxies.

Sometimes
it is unshed tears
fossilizing
into an unnamed terror.

To rise
out of the pit of depression,
I have to pray
and I have to write.

Sometimes
I pray and write simultaneously.

Sometimes
I pray
and then I write
or visa versa.

Sometimes
I write poetry.

Sometimes
I write short stories
or novels.

Sometimes
I write nonsense,
but I always write
because for me
there is no other exit
from depression.

Quote of the Day: "That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward." - Ernest Hemingway