Depression

It could be a shallow indent left in the mud by a curiously calloused child's hand;

the type of glassware Grandma remembered to me from days gone by

when she was but a child herself; these were the times when markets crashed,

jobs were scarce and the nation went hungry hoping for change;

angular line used both by surveyors of earth and sky as they journey West;

one will wonder at the slant of these celestial junctions as they stand inside it;

a hollowed land where water once locked by looming earthen walls has all been whisked away;

an unnaturally strong thief who empties the pockets of the mind until it becomes drained;

no burden of caring;  no will to wake up and face the day;

manifest physical pain commence and consequence it;

driving force of industry for doctors and shrinks;

crook in the trunk of a familiar tree where a hurt heart creeps to contemplate life;

when children cease to play; often lonely but never alone;

caused and cured by many things like a muddied child's hand in the 1930's.