Shadow and Light

Like everyone else
I daily 'do my best to be myself'.
Like many, I often see others
as being better at being me than I am.

The natural choice with depression
is to create a shadow self
behind which to hide from life,
whilst living with the numbness
of a lack of recognition.

To paraphrase Woody Allen
'I don't mind living, I just don't
want to be there when it happens'.