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I'm not okay

I feel like i am imprisoned

There are bars encasing my heart

They are constricting

and suffocating

and debilitating

 

And i can't take a full enough breath

to laugh

Or be able to will myself

to smile

 

I feel contained in a separate world

Always looking in through the bars i am enclosed in.

 

I am limited

to limited happiness.

And i am keeping myself

from loving you more

or loving you less.

 

Always in a constant struggle to keep a balance

where neither of us gets hurt.

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Written by
sierra-martin
20 / F / American
Published
Nov 26, 2014
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When those around you hurt you hurt too

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