Do you want to know

what depression is really like

it is different for each person

the personification of our worst fears,

a demon created just for us

 

It is the gag covering my mouth

preventing me from telling people

how i really feel

Preventing me from warning others

who are starting down the dark road

that i now travel

 

It is the being who steals all my emotions,

placing them in neat little boxes

packed away out of my reach

It is the reason I feel nothing

except a suffocating emptiness

 

The only time I can speak about it is here

where i am hidden in the cloak of anonymity

it helps me some to express my feelings

though the people who most need to hear them

will never know

unless i ever find it in me to break free

of the chains this demon has wrapped around me