DEPRESSION OR THE EGG

Which came first,
depression or the egg?
All jokes ring hollow
when you have a broken heart.
You see bags under your eyes everywhere:
under tree branches,
crossing rivers,
in a hammock,
on the couch.
No place is safe
from the shadow
of the cloud of depression.
Others can't understand
the Zeitgeist of your microcosm
because there is an invisible barrier
that separates them from you.
"What was that?" you say
because you didn't pay attention
and they accuse you
of being in your own world.
And, in a sense,- you are.