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I just don't know how to say it.

You ask me if I’m okay;

all these

words come up in my head.

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

But on the inside, I’m

SCREAMING.

I’m not okay, and I

wish I could say that. I

wish I could tell you that I

still want to die, I

want to slit my wrists,

swallow my pills,

jump from a building or

SOMETHING.

ANYTHING.

Because I’m

not okay.

And I

never will be.

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maggie-mcleod
Published
Nov 6, 2011
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