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Depression (Poem)

Updated: Oct 22

A young, sad woman wearing glasses.

(Note: This is a special piece that will not be renovated to be kept in the present day, and will not be updated in information, in order to preserve some of the past. Past I can reflect on. I am not keen on forgetting the past. The past can help us forge a better future. More on my philosophy on the past has been written).


(More on depression here)


Many people care,

Only for what gives them,

Should they be pissed off,

They'll apathetically try to scar you,



fly above my mind.

Fly around, like Saturn's ring,

And in my mind, their depressing content, they sing.

For they seek to be gratified,

They dislike,

Anyone who says things

Which they despise to hear.



Their lack of satisfaction,

Serves in their eyes, a justification,

To bring the sensitive mind,

Into the sinking temptation,

Of depression.


They care not for the impact they made,

On the sensitive mind.

The words implicated,

Like bombs from the sky.

Many days are a struggle,

To not shed a tear from the eye.


The "better",

For that means life will go easier,

Both when inflicting and being inflicted

The more humane, naïve you are,

The more prone you will be,

To the irritating tyrants,

Like ghosts haunting you,

For the rest of your life.


(I tried de-sensitizing myself,

All I am left is,

The love for edgy adult media and horror).


Even if you've wanted to do good,

They care not.

Even if you do it almost entirely as a volunteer,

They care not.

That sector cares only,

To read the words they want to hear,

And should they not receive which they seek,

They'll not hesitate,

To strike fear,

Of the world at large;

The very world,

You were taught by,

To seek, to desire, to contribute,

To conquer with love, with care.


Sensitivity, for them,

Is a weakness;

You cannot but try to wrestle against the desire,

For them to choke,

Of making you suffer,


I volunteered for an office that wasn't spacious,

I was hungry once.

Because of that I told my officer that I will not attend,

That individually-irrelevant ceremony.

They called me arrogant and selfish...

Me, a volunteer in the collective dirt,

Who just wanted to eat,

Or else anxiety might tempt him to scream.

Is it arrogant, to bring something of your own?

Is it arrogant, to not act like I'm a slave to others' satisfaction?


It seems that, whenever I wanted to contribute,

Much of what I got, was but words of hate,

Words of rebuke.

So what if it will deteriorate my mentality,

For the rest of my life...?


All they want,

Is that sweet, sweet taste of

And once they've done, they want it again!

And again! and again!

Because things they dislike,

That makes one wonder,

If they think the world owns to them,

Anything, anything at all?


Unease? Lack of satisfaction, too?

Boy, do I wonder,

Is it my job to be hit for "not delivering the goods"?


That sector, when unsatisfied,

Will wish to make you feel so bad about yourself,

That you are tempted to wonder...

Are they right?

And, saying NO and NO and NO,

Does not make the question go away,

In the mind of the obsessive, highly-caffeinated,

Unwillingly-emotional writer,

That I am.



If you are sensitive as I am,

(Or less)

Let's share this, to show awareness to the fact,

That sensitivity is one heck of a curse,

Inflicted on one's mind,

Perhaps for all of eternity.

There is no escape...

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Tomasio A. Rubinshtein, Philosocom's Founder & Writer

I am a philosopher, author of several books in 2 languages, and Quora's Top Writer of the year 2018. I'm also a semi-hermit who has decided to dedicate my life to writing and sharing my articles across the globe to help others and combat shallowness. More information about me can be found here.

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