Ian Thorpe - our great champion - faces new challenges in his life - let's give him every support

Views in verse on depression.  


Ian Thorpe's family and friends have today advised that he has been fighting a long battle with depression and related alcohol issues. It appears that he has been admitted to a specialist clinic for treatment. Well done to all involved for calling it out. 

One can only hope that this great Australian Olympic champion can attack this threat to his well-being with the same energy and zeal that has typified his life to-date as we know it.

Hang in there champ ...everyone is with you! Lift your head, just for a moment, to see.

Dark Reptiles

Dawn breaks bitter light

Stirring stone refuge once more

intruding again on broken sleep

Red eyes stare down the door

Movement doesn't come easy

Reticent to leave the source

Where can one go to find refuge?

Fate steer me that safer course 

Inviting faces challenge the mask

The now freeing frame distracts

As routine brings timely release

In hiding the guarded facts

How can I improve  my position here?

Can warmth not ease the doubt?

As the stalking dog ...he pads nearby

He's always, always, about.

Over the shoulder a shadow looms

night can't be far away...

Bent in regression a constant curse; 

Call dark to shroud the day!

So bring me sleep to salve my life

In an all too brief reprieve

The gloom closes in yet sleep does not come

the subconscious defying the need

Where do you go; where do you go?

To escape this moribund place
Waiting for heat 
from much needed sun 
with a gripped gnarling face

   
epilogue:

    The ones that I love

    They take good care

    They know the struggle in me

    The ones that I love

    They know me well but

    Their love can't set me free

Forwarded from my I pad - Grahame J Flynn