The Need For A Depression Detecting Machine.....

"You are an useless piece of shit..."
"You have no right to live on this earth..."
The voices kept on saying to her....
"Why,on earth, have you taken birth..."

She tried to shut the voices out...
By distracting her mind...
She tried everything she could do...
But at the end,on her face,the tears shined....

She kept hearing these voices everywhere...
And it didn't helped that she didn't had a single friend...
She was all alone in a crowd of people...
And she wanted all this to end....

She was scared to tell people about it...
For then everyone would see her as a freak...
To top it all,she was crushed under everyone's expectations..
And she was too afraid to speak...

She prayed that someone would find her...
And save her from this living hell...
The police found her...
And then they rang the death bell...

The police wrote it off as another suicide...
But I couldn't do that...
She was my other half,my elder sis...
The one who would love a cat...

I wished that she could have got help..
That we could have saved her...
Then I could have my sis for my entire life...
But now all of this will remain a blur...

Why do we view depression as something different...
It's as common as having cold...
Why do we not accept that depression doesn't make us different...
And why can't,to all , this be told...

Oh high and mighty engineers....
Plz can't you make a machine...
That would measure a person's depression??
Then my sis wouldn't have died at fourteen...

Then it would be as common as a glucose meter...
At least more people like my sis would be saved...
I request you for it..
This idea,I assure you will be well praised...

The human detectors:the psychiatrists aren't omnipresent..
They would get a big help..
And more shrushs would have been saved...
And more swaras would have their elder sisters with them...