i have a Black Dog

i have given up hoping to have a friend to speak too
i have given up asking the million questions of mine - so many things i do not understand

no one replies...

so here i am - speaking badly into a blog i am trying to do this - again!

this is me from now on aphasia speaking

enjoy...if you can

“the Black Dog of depression on my back

is dirty + scarred,

feral + rabid

he lurks in the night

yellow eyes gleaming

waiting for a chink in my armour,

a weakness, a vulnerability

a memory

+ then, jaws wide + fangs sharp,

he will leap…”

~ adapted;

Susan Elia MacNeal

"never yield to force;

never yield to the apparently

overwhelming might

of the enemy.”

Sir Winston Churchill

~ Harrow School, 29 October 1941