Trampled on

Most suicides occur here in the West,
where technology and commerce reign supreme.

Depression, like cancer, is a modern growth:
always there, but never quite like now,
when basic needs are covered, more or less,
and life's a quest for extras.

Television shows us health and wealth;
perfect bodies; gorgeous homes;fast cars -
unnattainable for most, but longed-for.

So we scuttle through brief lives
and fret to grab our morsel of such dreams.

We're ants, society's an elephant -
we're trampled on.