A difficult image to wield, perhaps because of my age, but for younger people it may be what is colloquially known as “a piece of cake”. But the image took me back to scenes from the film Ghost (1990).

The image shows a hooded figure standing in a narrow, misty street, flanked by old-style buildings, while a vulture-like shadow watcher searches for fresh carrion. The atmosphere is eerie and mystical, suggestive of a fantasy narrative, an epic adventure or intimidating death. It simply gives me the creeps, to think that it could be a dementor, if one of those dementors that roam around like in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban film (2004). The combination of all these elements, then, incites a metaphor for depression.

Whoever has had the chance to see Ghost (1990), will remember the scenes where behind death; either white silhouettes or black silhouettes await us, trapping us and leading us to hell. All depending on whether we have behaved well or badly, heh, heh, heh. I have no choice, I'll try my story with verses…