thanks Walking eagle, for your lovely thoughts.

no, right now, this thread was not for me. but what the original poem was, was just a description of bleakness. my idea, however the thread wanders, was just to use the poem to look at those feelings & acknowledge them.

it was not about changing them, overcoming them, because although those things are necessary and good, at the time that someone is entrenched in depression, change or a future is a theoretical concept which serves only to deny or ignore the current feelings.

"Still, O bird, O sightless bird,
Not yet, not yet the time to furl your wings."

I though the description of the big flightless bird was beautiful because it described, totally, blackness and bleakness which is a part of life sometimes.

i guess i wanted to acknowledge those bleak feelings that some people are feeling right now and observe them.

when anyone is sunk in it, that big flightless bird or black dog is very real.

freda
a big flighty bird..