all my friends, and neighbours shower me with words of grace and serenity
they tell me, it gets better! you will be okay!
according to them, time will heal all wounds I carry with me
and i just can't help but pity them
for believing such lies

do they really believe these words they repeat all the time?
or is it just grasping onto the fairy tales that they wish they could call 'mine'

and i feel so distanced from them
the distance grows each time they repeat such a cliché
they do not seem to understand, that yes, life gets better
however, i have seen it get way worse too
life does not follow the rules of exponential growth
as it is bound to the trend of the waves,
of the endless and mighty ocean

life gets better, and it gets worse too
we do not have a say in which way life goes
no one ever truly knows