Do you?

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Do you ever cry after reading a heartbreaking book,

And wonder how you'll ever live on?

Do you ever wonder why you are alive,

Why, in the first place, you were born?

Do you ever feel drained

Of all your happiness?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever feel like an outcast,

Bullied by everyone?

Do you ever feel unlucky,

Just because you're different?

Do you ever feel

As if you'll never be the best?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever

Feel defeated?

Do you ever feel,

As if with life, you've lost a bet?

Do you ever feel

As if in you, there remains no jest?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever mourn

Over yesterday?

Do you ever think,

Think that you're leading yourself astray?

Do you ever feel

Gloom looming over your chest?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do your prickly thoughts

Kill those little bubbles of hope?

Do you ever feel

As if with death, you should elope?

Do you ever assess yourself,

And just assume that you're failing, of life, this test?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever feel

That you're just in a boring song?

Do you ever feel

As if you can't just dance along?

Do you ever feel

As if your whole body is oppressed?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever

Feel your heart ache?

Do you ever feel

As if you're about to break?

Do you ever feel,

By negativity, caressed?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever feel

Burdened by unreasonable guilt?

Do you ever feel the need

To leave everything, and just curl up in a quill?

Do you ever feel

As if you're living a slugfest?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever show, like a tremor,

Slight deviations outside, but feel great disturbing rifts inside?

Do you ever feel

Sucked out of your might?

Do you ever feel

A loss of your finesse?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

Do you ever feel,

As if there is no one to help?

Do you ever feel,

As if no one listens to your quiet yelps?

Do you ever feel,

As if the search for happiness is a futile quest?

Do you,

Do you ever feel depressed?

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