Depression

Depression Is a trap A cage from which There's no escaping You see your loved ones On the other side of the bars Reaching Their hands towards you You grasp for their hands Wish for their loving embraces But you are trapped The bars containing you Thick, steel, and immovable Will not give At your relentless effort You work And work And work And work And try And try And try And try So hard To be free But the bars only grow stronger And you only grow weaker Until you are too tired to move a muscle You want to get up And get out of this place But there is no way To escape the inescapable cage Once you've fallen to the floor You can no longer get up To continue failing your impossible mission Your friends and family Stand outside And watch as you try And fail And try And fail The tell you to snap out of it Just smile and it'll be fine Change your attitude and you'll be free But they do not see Your brain is broken Your heart is hopeless Your soul has sunk Your death is destined to come Doctors join The group outside They throw pills in through the bars They say it'll work But it just turns out worse Therapists and counselors Are added to the mix Just talk about it, it'll help They all say But talking means reliving The horrible memories Of drowning in despair Of facing your demons alone at 3am Of people you once loved who vowed to stay with you Only to break that promise And leave you helpless and alone And you try To bring yourself up Take weight off your shoulders And break free from the bars But the weights have become A part of you Molded to your shoulder blades Dragging you back to the ground So you cry Because you realize it's hopeless Depression will forever Keep you in its grasp The bars will forever Keep you trapped Despite how hard you try To be free