I am a SAD case. Well, I may not actually suffer clinically from Seasonal Affective Disorder, but I sometimes think I am not far off it. Another summer like this one, and I could well lose my will to live.
OK - I don't want to depress you all. But I am sure there are few of you who will not resonate to what I am saying, except perhaps those who live in permanently sunny climes. My friends in Australia may not have the same problem, though they may have others.
So I have decided to celebrate the sun today. I searched Google Images for depictions of the sun. I was surprised at how few simple, graphic or cartoon-style images there were. I looked at 20 pages with 18 images on each, and found only 10 out of 360. I am offering you the best of these.
I also looked for poems about the sun. The first to catch my eye was one by Katrina Mathy which speaks directly from and to my heart:
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the fog to clear
For I wish to leave this deep dark rest
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the light to come back to my heart
For I wish to leave this barren cell
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the rain to stop
For the thoughts to depart
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the tears to stop
For the pain to cease
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For now it is too late
For now I will no longer come
For the fog to clear
For I wish to leave this deep dark rest
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the light to come back to my heart
For I wish to leave this barren cell
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the rain to stop
For the thoughts to depart
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For the tears to stop
For the pain to cease
I sit and wait for the sun to come
For now it is too late
For now I will no longer come
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me"
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me"
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky
Gods cool in turn, by the sun long outlasted.
5 comments:
I live in a sunny climate and folks still get depressed. May you have all the sun shine you desire.
Sharon who enjoys your blog....
Judith – take up clouds!. I know what you mean, but I try to take pleasure in the beauty of our clouds and I've now got to the point that I wouldn't want to face the endlessly cloudless skies that some countries have. Look at this site http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Your suns made my day. I live in Oregon and our summer has been cool, cloudy drizzly.... But the sun shone today to I am happy.
About the double space in your blog. I think when that happens to me it is because I use a hard return on poetry or short quotes. Might be worth a check.
b
Thanks, 'b', but I'm a bit baffled by the terminology here. I gather a hard return is clicking on Enter or the 'carriage return' key. But what is the alternative, presumably a 'soft return'?
Yes, Judith. I also know all about S.A.D. I just hate January and February.
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