Written for:  Go Dog Go Cafe - Quatern  (posted by Donna Matthews)

This poem has 16 lines broken up into 4 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas).
Each line is comprised of eight syllables.
The first line is the refrain. In the second stanza, the refrain appears in the second line; in the third stanza, the third line; in the fourth stanza, the fourth (and final) line.


Battling depression each day.
Try not to fall off the mountain,
though at times my balance teeters.
No one to fight except myself.

Dawn appears with familiar fears.
Battling depression each day,
with hope for a break-through today.
A white meditation ball

that illuminates my body,
chasing charcoal shadows so dark.
Battling depression each day.
Music, writing, family and friends

helps to dilute the gray.  When
out, I wish to spread my stiff wings
like a bird–no destination.
When curtains part, I long to stop
battling depression each day.

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