depression

we talk so eloquently of depression
of how it's so easy to turn someone from
the edge,
but how many people out there can actually say
they have the answers?
how many of those would take the time
to listen?
and if you were to listen, would you understand
what is being said?

it's as easy as changing your life
or taking a pill
or parting the sea
and yet it will always remain
just behind the eyes
where darkness is forever

we have learned to turn away from the negative,
to pretend it isn't there because it's not
happening to us

we switch off our feelings
so easily, but those who feel can't so easily turn
those emotions away

we live in a sensory world and some
simply choose not to recognize it

there are horrible things happening everywhere
and just because you refuse to look
doesn't mean they're any less terrible

and there are some who get caught up
and lost in that swirling mass of
smothering darkness
like diving into an ocean
rather than dipping in a toe
to test the water

and there's no life raft here

and salvation only comes
with how quickly you can drown