Hi all! New account here, just in time for mental health awareness month, I‘ve been browsing Reddit for ages and I’ve always found the most helpful redditors in any subject I’ve ever come across and the mental health subs are certainly no exception. So I decided to finally join a Reddit community and would like to share a poem on mental struggles, I apologize if poetry is not normally posted here and I will post on a poetry sub as well but since the subject is mental health/illness struggles; without further ado, hope you enjoy it!   


&amp;#x200B;

&amp;#x200B;

**What is this battle?** 

When does it end? 

When will I be back on my own feet again? 

The battle in question... is depression, my friend 

It’s a constant labyrinth of the mind

With any positive memories left behind 

Shadow after shadow block out the light 

With no glimmer of hope anywhere in sight 

“It’s not so bad!” You tell yourself “it could be worse!”

But you soon learn your mind will not be coerced 

You try to remember how life was before

When nothing you did was ever a bore 

Slowly you lose grip of who you were

And try to accept the life you’re doomed to endure

It is like the Scylla and Charybdis 

And you wonder why any being would ever allow this 

You fight the waves, but the waves fight back harder 

You have to be vigilant, you must be smarter 

It’s like the shoulder devil and angel but only the devil appears

The angel is not there to abolish your fears

You cry a river, but it ultimately swallows you 

Is it any wonder the color for sadness is blue?

I know the struggle, no end is near 

But you’re not alone, which must be comforting to hear

It’s not your fault, nor is it mine

Sooner or later everything else will align

And when it does, your light will shine

Bright enough to leave any darkness eons behind

Keep your head up, find a way to keep pushing on

Because everyone else will be lost the day that you’re gone 

Don’t give up the fight, someday you will win

And on that day, your life will truly begin

Make what you can of every day and eventually you will see

I am here for you! As I know you are for me!