The whole Essay is based on mental illness and there cause focusing on the real issue. You have mentioned the real world lifestyle, struggling for each day to survive. This is true fact and no one can deny it.

Turn up the song
So not to hear my sighs
Turn down my thoughts
A longing to see the world
A smile is slight
And eyes, never wide
As I’m deafened
By what I can’t say aloud
I hear there’s a quiet
Under your blanket
Though there’s no escaping
The long winters, ahead