Mental Health Poem About Depression and Spring

I’m grateful that spring does usually take away the seasonal depression that I get in the winter. But I was thinking about how people whose depression remains all year long must feel in spring and was inspired to write this poem.

Maybe Spring

Maybe spring will forgive me
if I don't rush to welcome her arrival,
if I don't shout with glee
and fall to my knees
to take in the aroma of each blooming flower.

Maybe spring will forgive me
if I find the chirping of baby birds
like the plucking of strings out of tune
and prefer the company of this darkened room
to the blinding light of April's sun.

And maybe spring will forgive me
if I prefer the numbing snows of winter
to these nurturing waters falling from the sky.
For how do I celebrate new life when I
still feel so dead inside?

Justin Farley

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My current collections of poetry, all available on Amazon, all written by me, Justin Farley. A Voice in the Wilderness is a chapbook of Christian Poetry, written about the joys, doubts, struggles, and sorrows of the Christian life. Nature’s Bounty is a collection of nature poetry celebrating my love for the outdoors. And Thorns of Love is the first book of three in a series of poems about love, this one being sad, breakup poems.

I have also published two poetry collections about the seasons and mental health–each book containing half nature poems about the particular season and half mental health issues that I felt correspond with the season. The first collection I published was Frozen Rivers which is about winter and also the hardships of life and specifically living with mental illness. My latest book is Blossoms of Hope which focuses on spring and finding hope during hard times.

I write to reach the hearts of the searching, the suffering, the still fighting. I write to soothe my soul and hopefully to soothe yours too. I write to celebrate and attempt to put words to the beauty of life. Here are my published books on Amazon. More to come. A huge, humble thank you to anyone who supports my work.

-Justin Farley