Try

When people tell me
To not be sad and not to cry
I can't help but associate
Those feelings with myself
Who am I without my depression?
I grew up with it
It's a part of me
It is as if I hear
That I cannot be myself
Just try to be someone else
Just try to be happy, they say
As if happiness was a person
That I am always compared to
A favorite child, I would lose to
The first choice that he loves too
I can try to be him
I can force myself to be him
But I cannot be him
I can only be myself!

- Nirmohi