Love and death

I lost a bunch of people over the covid time span.  None from Covid but from depression.   Depression from the lockdowns, job loss, family loss, economic fallout.  Some might have an amnesia coming on as some of those times are hard to stomach looking back at them.
One friend confessed the want to suicide and I wrote this for her.  I never told her that it was for her but I did spend 3 hours on the phone talking her off the ledge.  To this day I don’t know if she ever heard it and I’m pretty sure that she doesn’t even know about this blog so…I don’t mind talking about it here.

As a great author once said, “if it doesn’t concern Love or Death it’s probably not worth writing about.”

 

“Lonely”

How can it be that with all the love around you you could feel so lonely
if only
someone could make it through to you but you keep the world outside
you built that wall too high
now you’re wishing you were Somebody else or with Someone else
I know I tried
to break that wall
But I can’t

you don’t have to be lonely
on your own
you don’t have to go it alone

Stay with me don’t let the screen take your eyes away
don’t be a cell phone slave
because there’s still magic in the day
but the computers can steal it away
You got yourself too high and now you’re wishing you were Somebody else or with Someone else
Don’t keep the world outside
It will do you no good

you don’t have to be lonely
on your own
you don’t have to go it alone

don’t keep the world outside
don’t close your eyes
don’t build that wall so high

you don’t have to be lonely
on your own
you don’t have to go it alone