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The theme is evident in all the poems because all the poems talk about depression. All the poems either have depression through the eyes and mind of a depressed person, or they are of how much depression can hurt and why. In one of the poems, it says in order to save the world you must share its pain, this is showing depression, suffering and being lonely. All the poems are kind of sad, and two tell that depressed people want to be happy. In one poem, a line shows a perfect world of a depressed person: "no more depression, no more frustration, no more suffering." This is showing that depressed people are just as human as us. They are all the same because they all have to do with depression. They all state how much depression changes and/or hurts a person, they all show depression in its full form. The way they are different, because they all show depression from a different point of view. The first poem, shows depression and what the effects on a person are. The second poem is a very artistic way of showing how depression changes a person, sort of a realization of depression. The third poem is almost living in the mind of a depressed person, it lets you explore the thoughts of a perfect world and then it shows you the thoughts. The last poem is expressing the pain that living with depression brings. For instance in one line it says "how do you live with a time bomb inside of you...... you don't."

The poem that effected me the most was probably the first one. Even though the poem was short, simple and repetitive, it expressed the true feeling of depression. The poem has nine words in it and the three of the words are depression. The poem expresses that living with depression is very hard. An example of this is, well the whole poem: "Depression, exhausts me, Depression blinds me, Depression strangles me." The lines are all correct, this is how a depressed person feels every day. Most of the other poems don't really show what the effects of depression are exactly, but in one line of a poem it says: "watching freedom," this is also something that effects me because depression really does trap you from being who you are and when you see other people being themselves, it feels like your watching freedom.