Depression Poem by Noah Body

Depression is a ravenous beast
On mind, heart and soul it feasts

Devours all that's good and pure
Despair and loneliness a tasty lure

Dragging you down into muck and mire
There the endless agony of hell fire

It's so slippery and full of guile
It often hides behind a fake smile

Strange to be in but not of this world
Hiding, separate, in a corner curled

More the fool, even I believed the lies
Yet I could never deny the mirrored eyes

Of light and life an eternal evil drain
A blot, a disease, on life profane

Eliminate the negatives is what they say
If you are to find happiness some day

I find myself at the head of that list
How can I justify to continue to exist?