Huh, okay, here's a poem

[ysobel]

Content warning: depression



Depression is
A gaping chasm
Within my chest,
Jagged darkness hacked
Out of living first and bone
A frozen nothingness that
Sits inside me

Depression is
A muffling layer
Over my emotions,
cheap coarse cotton batting
That smothers what I feel
So everything is shapeless and dull.

Depression is
An unforgiving saltwater ocean
Endless, with no land in sight
Such that hopelessly treading water
Is the best I can manage

Depression is
A carefully forged mask of I'm-okay
Despite the silent internal screaming
That I'm anything but.

Depression is
Perfectionism made savage,
My brain turned against myself.

Depression is
Soulless, crushing despair.

Depression is.