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Glass Cage

by @AlainaPoetry

Overwhelmed is a term tossed around to the point of underwelming. I am a depressed person in a glass cage, with no way to hide my fear. Like a million little cuts across my body, and not a damn one distracts me from myself. I feel like I'm pounding on the glass screaming, "I wish you would just be happy!" I'm a depressed person wanting telling a depressed person the worst things to say to depressed people. The irony is a silent needle that sews the lips shut. Pretend you're alseep while pretending to be alive. I sacrifice myself for others worthy of the life. Exhausting to carry their burdens, and the tears they can't actually cry. Faces rest in palms as if hands are any sort of shelter. Inability to let things go makes me feel like I have to rip them apart. Living like this makes you ill beyond belief. All I want is a good night's sleep.
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32 / Non-binary / American
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Written by
AlainaPoetry
32 / Non-binary / American
Published
Feb 2, 2019
Time
1m
Tags
#depression#struggle#coping#helping#others#love#anxiety
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