Deah Caldwell Poetry

She said,
“Have you ever been in a car wreck,
where your body is jerked around?
You’re extremely sore,
bloodied, and bruised,
where it takes months to heal.
That’s exactly how depression feels.
Except,
just as soon as your body heals,
you wreck again.
It’s a life on a highway
of never-ending wrecks.”