Alternatives to Handling Depression

Gather woods.

Make a fire.

Stand strong before the smoke.

Hold your breath, sway in it.

Don’t allow a crevice in your nose.

No, you won’t get high.

Sit in the woods,

In the area that speaks to you the most.

Throw thrums at the trees.

Screech until the city sends someone to you.

Take a walk along the seashore.

See if you can hear the sea through the seashell.

These things do work too.

About the author

Prince U.D. Tardeh is an aspiring Liberian poet and spoken word artist currently attending Swarthmore College, United States. His works have been published in Eboquills, Spillwords magazine, Sleepless in Monrovia, and forthcoming in “Breaking the Silence” - an anthology of Liberian Literature. He is a Young Scholar of Liberia and a Lift Liberia Scholar from SMART Liberia’s Education Advancement Program.

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