Depression

Solstice blues

Down down down
I am gloom
I am jelly
I am a worm

Rubbish piles high
There is some noise
I sigh and sigh
Gone are all joys

Imagine a cat
T'will move and jump
Never goes down
Or gets the hump

Imagine some flowers
Are growing wild
On Hackney Marshes
Some lovely hours

The shortest day
Just clouds, no rain
No movement outside
A grey window pain

Enough of all this
There is work to do
And no other hands
It will see me through

Joan Hughes 21.12.00