DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND HOPE
 

Depression, from bad times gone by,
while you linger in the past,
you can't change your yesterdays,
they need to be forgotten, and fast.

Anxiety for the unknown futures,
you fear the coming days,
will it or won't it work out,
the worry, inside you stays.

The hope that NOW represents,
while you sit here and wonder,
for each thing is possible,
you must come out from under.

You choose which phase to live in,
it is all up to you,
you can change it all in a thought,
so decide to live life anew !

Anyone can be sad and depressed,
it isn't too hard to do,
it all begins with a thought.."what if",
in a few moments, depression has you.

You didn't become depressed overnight,
it built a bad thought at a time,
each low day leads to one yet worse,
the energy spent, what a crime.

The fear of the future is about the same,
and anxiety attacks are for real,
you become so intense and afraid,
totally out of control you feel.

Soon, even the slightest thing sets you off,
your attacks become more bizarre,
and it seems that during this time,
you're not really sure who you are.

That simple thought "what if",
can be turned around to be good,
after what IF, think a happy and smile,
and envision that it really COULD !

Build you days on happy nights,
when you took a good thought to bed,
think it and say it time and again,
let it fill your sleepy head.

Feed happy things into your mind,
happy and silly and giggle even,
give your mind a time to relax,
and to forget the stress that's been.

Don't think tomorrow, try to think NOW,
find something to fill your head,
find something you can dive into,
get totally absorbed with no words said.

Let tomorrow come and go,
without the need to control and know,
you will find that the days,
somehow know which way they should go.

Fill your mind with happy thought,
learn to believe that you are just fine,
respect and love and trust your self,
and it will build a PLUS, one at a time.

Find the happy within your self,
don't heed what others may say,
don't be deterred from finding your smile,
and you WILL some sunny day !!
 

©Written by: Ed Kassirer
May 3, 2001