Most suicides occur here in the West, <br />where technology and commerce reign supreme. <br /> <br />Depression, like cancer, is a modern growth: <br />always there, but never quite like now, <br />when basic needs are covered, more or less, <br />and life's a quest for extras. <br /> <br />Television shows us health and wealth; <br />perfect bodies; gorgeous homes; fast cars - <br />unattainable for most, but longed-for. <br /> <br />So we scuttle through brief lives <br />and fret to grab our morsels of such dreams. <br /> <br />We, re ants, society's an elephant - <br />we're trampled on.<br /><br />Robert Melliard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/trampled-on/
