Instead of depression

Artist Philip Geiger

Instead of Depression

try calling it hibernation.

Imagine the darkness is a cave

in which you will be nurtured

by doing absolutely nothing.

Hibernating animals don’t even dream.

It’s okay if you can’t imagine

Spring. Sleep through the alarm

of the world. Name your hopelessness

a quiet hollow, a place you go

to heal, a den you dug,

Sweetheart, instead

of a grave.

- ANDREA GIBSON