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Depression

They give you a pill for your depression

They say, 'It will soon go away'

They tell you it's a defect in your expression

It comes and goes like passing days

They tell you not to think in colour

'Try monochrome, or shades of grey'

They tell you not dream or think too deep

Or imagine living on a better stage

They give you a word for your depression

'feeling low or feeling blue'

They give you a place for your depression

A place they send the 'depressed to'

Of no direction, hope or purpose,

A gallery of muted faces

Who sit in silence devoid of violence

Watching the chairs and empty spaces

They send you to hell with your depression

Take your ID at the door

Relieve you of all your possessions

Leave you howling on the floor

I've seen them caged in adult cages

Past the stage of want and care

They leave them swaddled up like babies

And forget that they are even there

There is a name for depression

It's called 'extinction' learn it fast

The sand is falling quickly through,

Let's leave before the hour is past!

yvette m smith feb 09

poem by Yvette Smith
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