Need a friend

I keep screaming, but no one hears
about my loneliness and neurotic fears

there are so many people claiming to care
but in reality no one is ever really there

I've never been touched, and I've been around
somehow I always wind up on the ground

I always seem to be the one who falls
builds it up then loses it all

nobody can fix me, I'm too broken
but I cover it up by laughing and joking

I hide my self-loathing behind a mask
while trying to compensate for all that I lack

you people are fools to think I'm OK
or maybe your thinking things you don't say

All I'm asking is for someone to reach out a hand
to pull me up and be my friend