My Piece on her Piece called "Explaining my Depression to my Mother"

The theme I picked this week was the idea of people speaking on the disorders they have. This girl's name is Sabrina Benaim and her video was posted on Button Poetry as well. This poem is about depression and explaining it to people and how difficult that can be. She describes depression as making her a shape-shifter "one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, the next day -- the bear." This poem is very different from the other one because this one doesn't make a positive light out of the problem the person speaks about. I like this poem for the artistic view she puts on the idea of depression. I think the two poems this week show my two favorite ways of writing poems about things aren't necessarily positive: 1. shining a positive light on them and 2. making them artistic. I love her passion and her metaphors a lot and I appreciate her strength shown in how she talks about her depression and how she can write about it.