Depression is a side effect of life You can’t understand it Until you can not stand your own presence In an empty room. You feel like someone else deserved your life And not you And you’d kill to be someone else To be no one else. It’s when everything Seems to be exhausting you. No matter how much sleep you get Or how much coffee you drink Or how long you lie down, Something inside you Seems to have given up And you feel your soul is tired. It isn’t always at 3am Sometimes it hits you at 3pm When you are with your friends And you are halfway through a laugh. On some days You feel like you have been to hell Met Satan And given your soul away. It’s like drowning Except You can see everyone else around you breathing. There is no greater battle Thank the fight to keep your sanity The voices in your head need words Their stories need to be told Their screams need to be heard Their pain demands to be felt. Nothing fucks you up More than your own thought
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time.