"Life is hard." I hear it all the time but there's something about that sentence that they're not getting right
Life isn't something you can touch and it's not something you can see it's something deep within us that allows us to just... be
No, LIFE isn't hard the word you're looking for is LIVE See, living takes a lot of effort that some people just can't give
It's not that we don't want to or that we're not trying hard enough it's just... sometimes the things we go through make living kind of tough
From heartbreak to mistakes or losing your best friend the world is filled with heartache that makes it harder to pretend...
Oh, I know we say we're fine and that everything's just "swell" but inside we're slowly drowning and I'm not surprised that you can't tell
See, some of us are experts at putting on a mask like robots, we can nod our heads and even smile when you ask
But if by chance you ever managed to see beyond the words we say you might glimpse the inner demons that we battle every day
From self-hate to self-harm and a variety of bad self-thoughts sometimes, they just find their way to us but sometimes it's what we're taught
Depression and Anxiety and unrelenting OCD panic attacks and flashbacks and even PTSD these aren't excuses we come up with they're just harsh reality
It's not our fault we have them they're not something that we choose they're just the hands that we've been dealt and aren't at liberty to refuse
So in honor of these silent soldiers who walk through life invisibly scarred the next time you want to say that phrase remember... it's not LIFE but LIVING that's hard...