Preteen
The next one stepped forward, a heartbeat older...
*Child*
"Do not drown in sorrow," she breathed, a gentle...
The voices in my head are deafening,
their relentless clamor echo through my mind...
I don't want to sleep
because there doesn't seem to be a...
I'm afraid to answer that
Because I'm not fine...
I've never been happy,
not in my childhood, adolescence or as an adult...
I'm exhausted,
I try to scream and detach...
My tears roll
and my mind screams...
as much as i want her to
my body will not lie...
I mustn't tether pain to land
With knots that will not loose or fray...
So much easier to fake a smile
Rather than to tell the truth...
The war is all a blur now, there is nothing I...
Maybe it was us against the world, me against you...