{"sf1_id":393574,"sf2_id":"qmy9AAQm","title":"Depression poem","author":"Fox thief","words":420,"posted_at":"2012-06-22T17:53:00.000Z","tags":["Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/393574-depression-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/qmy9AAQm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c4/93/c493e806-dc84-465d-92e6-e2ddd7d82fdd","description":"","content":"Depression\n\nFuck, depression man\n\nThat's what's going on here\n\nIt makes you do some fucked up shit\n\nNow I don't usually curse like this\n\nBut what do you expect I'm in low, pitiful state\n\nI'm listening to break up songs and trying to see straight\n\nIt doesn't help without my glasses\n\nAnd an empty wine glass\n\nBut heck at least it's not too extreme\n\nAt least you haven't found my body in a stream\n\nThe insults I get are just fuel for the fire\n\nBut they will get replaced by desire\n\nThe desire to be accepted because I'm different\n\nI've met many mean people in life\n\nAnd all they do is just push me over the edge\n\nSometimes I just take it\n\nThen when my family asks what's wrong\n\nI fake it\n\nI fake happiness and play ping pong\n\nI fake glee and act like I'm free\n\nI'm not free\n\nI still have to deal with their shit\n\nBut that's life right?\n\nWrong\n\nBecause you can be what once was\n\nA taker\n\nA near cutter\n\nA target\n\nOr you can stand up to them\n\nOnly to realize that when you do\n\nIt causes more trouble\n\nThat's what happened to me and they call me a pussy\n\nIf they saw the scars on my arm from the pellet gun\n\nI bet they would think differently\n\nNow, my fursona is a fox\n\nSo, most people associate me as being submissive to everyone\n\nWell that's not the case\n\nI think I'm free spirited\n\nDetermined\n\nMind strong\n\nAnd lovable\n\nYou laugh\n\nI knew you would\n\nNot because you are like them\n\nBut unlike them you actually care\n\nAnd that's all I ask for\n\nNo one likes depression especially when it nearly causes the end of your life\n\nBut I've found a way to help me with it before it gets to severe\n\nNo, I don't eat grass like a deer\n\nI write about it\n\nI watch lion king\n\nBecause there is adversity in it\n\nI talk to people\n\nAnd try to stay afloat so I can see through the peephole\n\nI drink sometimes and lay in bed\n\nI shoot my bow and arrow\n\nInstead of myself\n\nI don't think I would get to the point where I killed myself\n\nBecause I know there people who love me\n\nAnd to those of you going through the same thing\n\nDo something fast and you will be fine\n\nP.S.\n\nDon't think no one loves you because that's not true, your family loves you and we do too.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}