Hitting The Bottom, You Find An Exit! Poem by TD. Kumar

When you are overwhelmed with fearsome shadows; you are sinking
Every connection and joint in your life is creaking
Crawling in a seamless tunnel with no light at the end
Hitting the bottom, you suddenly find an exit and opening.

When dark clouds have no silver lining
When every fiber in your body and mind is twisted and writhing
A window zooms in and you get an exit into luminous sky
You don't know its' how and why?

Your memory box is chock full of methods and inspiring words of positivity
But they are not available within the choking black box of negativity
Suicide as the only option, you still clutch at the straw of dim light of hope and survival
Suddenly you let go hit the bottom with a thud and welcome a moonbeam's arrival

You jolt into a movement with a deep breath and a glass of water
Separate the feeling of strangulating depression
From the entangled wounding conversation
Get into going by knowing the difference between who is suffering and the witness, with a ring of laughter