Poem In Two Parts

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Manic Depression is kamikaze assault on the

the delicate emotional  constructs

of self deluded purpose ,

leaving only a blistered and

Beaten slag heap of self abnegation.

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The regrets of old age

The folly’s of youth

The vanity of the middle years.

The transgressions in which

Our souls  marinate.

A curious litany  of ineptitudes

that is hard to make sense of and

That  does not add up to anything much.

In so many ways it all seems for naught.

Derek Earl Houghton