Depression Awareness Week

It is depression awareness so, inspired by the lovely Hope, I am going to share a few short poems I wrote about my depression.

On the surface I am happy,

On the surface I fit in.

But underneath that shell,

Lots of sadness is held in.

Feelings are like knots,

Tangled up inside,

but in my mind they seem to be

Something I need to hide.

The happiness is a shell,

It's how I should be

The darkness that's inside,

Is what they will never see.

I don't know what to do,

I don't know what to say.

I just need some help,

to make this monster go away.

I may not have escaped my depression yet, but I have seen that there is a light. There is a way out of it. The bravest thing you can do is ask for help.

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