Questions

If you take out all the anger
And you lay it on your skin
Do you think your friends would notice
All the pain that lies within

Would they try to ease the sorrow
As it eats straight to your core?
Would they simply leave you lying
Slumped and aching on the floor?

If the poison on the inside
Made its way into your words
Slashing at your friendships
Like a double edged sword,

Would you try to suck the venom
From the wounds your voice has made?
Is it better to console friends
Say it's better off this way?

If they cling to you while bleeding
Would you let them slip away?
Does it matter so completely
What the words in your head say?

Would you limit your existence
To the space between four walls
Ignoring bills and letters
and those few who try to call

If you find your soul escaping
Would you dare to call it back?
Would you simply watch in wonder
As it glides between the cracks?

Have you given up so quickly?
I'll admit I am the same
My memories are foggy
And I can't recall my name

I'm aware that we're both fighting
Is it better to let go?
Lay out all the hurt inside
So everybody knows?

Somehow I don't know the answers
To the questions that I ask
Yet I feel a sense of comfort
Knowing nothing here will last

If you answer my inquiries,
Share solutions, if you please
For I'm sure that in the future
You'll be much wiser than me

I will drift among the wreckage
I created of my life
But I hope the end for you will prove
Things can turn out alright.

- Obscure
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