Evening benediction

If you need one

Spiral Staircase

I know it is excruciatingly hard to find yourself
in the same bad place again
With the same depression, same fears
same hopelessness as before

But look closer.

This is not a circle, but a spiral staircase.
From a certain view it seems that you
are going around in circles

But shift your perspective and you realize
you are so much higher than before
ready to face these feelings and this circumstance
with more wisdom, more hard-won experience
more coping mechanisms in place.

And when you circle back again next time
you will have even more, and be even further
with even more evidence
that you can make it through.

from Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression