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what is depression?
Tell me about your depression and the way it makes you feel. It can be a poem or a short story or a metaphor. Anything at all just enlighten me,
tyrados

Hope.

This is a song that I wrote when I was just beginning to emerge from a particularly debilitating, months-long depression. For me, this was the first one that lasted this long and was this severe.

Today I looked outside my window

And let the light come streaming in.

I realized that I'd forgotten

How it felt upon my skin.

So I decided to take a walk

To pretend that I was really me.

Like I had never simply checked out,

And now I needed to rejoin society.

The wind was biting on my face

And I realized somehow the seasons had changed.

I didn't know how much time had passed

Or how to explain how it had gone both so slow and so fast.

I made my way back home

I felt so drained just from being in the world.

I picked up my guitar

And for the first time in a while a piece of me unfurled.

#lyrics

I am 21 years or older.