I refuse to believe that my anxiety and my depression
Are a result of not having enough pills in my diet.
I reject the notion that we are a civilized society
That can kill remotely from half a world away
But won't give healthcare to its own people.
I despise hypocrites declaring Christ the king of this nation
Who balk at charity, forgiveness, fairness, love.
I want to live in a world where faith
Is simply what you believe,
Not what you use to justify your hate.
I am not depressed because of a chemical imbalance.
We are depressed because we share the weighty burden
Of a whole world of bullshit on our shoulders,
Have been indoctrinated into a malignant system
Of self-interested falsehood,
Idolatrous worship of efficiency,
The overvaluing of money

And undervaluing of value.

We are depressed because they taught us the rules

And broke them as we watched.

We all are guilty

Who built up beneath ourselves

Foundations only of forebear's opinion.

I refuse to believe we are anything less than children of God

Or anything more than the most recent emergence from protoplasmic goop,

That being an animal and possessing humanity are mutually exclusive.

I reject that right and wrong are mandated from on high,

I reject that religion holds a monopoly on morality.

God or no God, we are spirited and spiritual beings.

I do not feel anxiety because something is wrong with me.

I feel anxiety because something is wrong with everything else.