The Irony of Pain and Happiness
Expression: showing emotions through colour --
Music -- words -- creation.
You give other people insight
Into your feelings, because
Humans Are Social Creatures.
When you're healthy and young,
You excel -- you are happy --
You couldn't imagine a more perfect world
Than the isolated bliss
Of your small range of knowledge.
You go to the zoo
And marvel at elephants,
Read books beyond your years.
Your mind is filled with
Words of dragons and chimps,
Dreams of science and art.
For fun when you're young
You go sledding,
Or hitting crabapples off the tree.
You're A Pleasure To Have In Class,
And happy memories are forged.
But then something happens,
And turns your world upside down.
Suddenly everyone hates you,
And you get in trouble
For playing alone.
At recess you run,
Differently from the others;
Instead of running with friends,
You're running for your life.
You're so confused --
What have you done wrong?
This time you don't know why
Your world has turned backwards --
All that you know is that
You are alone.
You're told that you're worthless,
Convinced you can't do anything right,
And what can you do?
You're alone.
You Think You're So Special
Because you haven't yet realized
That everyone suffers --
Though everyone tells you
We All Have Problems --
You think that it's different
For you because you're alone,
So how are you to know
That you're not the only one?
It gets worse and worse --
It goes on for years: Depression.