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depression

ayyyyo where my depressed kids at?? i don't like this one much, but it's super old and i've eVoLvEd since then soo hey we ain't judging my old self right? tysm to everyone who voted on my last few poems and to everyone who reads these! special thanks to Bruhimkelly, leolantsov, sssunshine1, yalieen_, Stressedflower4 for reading/voting on my last few! also, thanks to _poets_ for letting me add one of my poems to their book :) if you don't like the beginning of this poem, i agree with you, but bear with me for like 8 lines and it gets better, i promise <3

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what is

depression?

doctors define it:

feelings of severe

despondency

and dejection

but that is not

depression

it is the sadness

that hides under your bed

and in the corners of rooms

the melancholy gray

of dread

and pain

that leaks into your mind

into your thoughts

into your being

it wipes away

who you were

scraping at the

foundation

of a person

until they topple over

at last

who are you

if not a

culmination

of your sorrows

and your dreams

and your

shortcomings

who are you

if not a

compiled list

of your failures

and your setbacks

and your

losses

what is

depression?

what defines

sorrow?

who decides

what

pain

is?