Low mood in winter is not an uncommon experience, but I am always taken by surprise when I realise that yet again that is what I have been experiencing. Troublesome or oppressive thoughts, or obsessions seem to go hand in hand for me with seasonal affective disorder. Hoping that the forecast sunshine this week brings happier and healthier minds for those of us who struggle.

I must rest my feet
On something stronger than
What I feel
Today the sun shone so brightly
All my foolish inclinations
Seemed faded
A shadow of themselves
Like a page when the printer is running out of ink
They say to beware of April the !st
But this morning
Is the first
In a long while
That my mind has been quite my own