we know it's not
just a ten-letter word
so why do we try
to turn it into a beautiful lie
and simply disguise it
as simply a bunch of lines
and stanzas?
while we need constant assurance
that this disease isn't the only thing
that makes us who we are
we are more
than our mental illness
but these false illusions
that you call "poems"
make us think otherwise
depression is not beautiful
depression is not poetic
you can't make it
into something that it's not
and when you figure that out
you'll find that this irony
is now hypocrisy