I feel nothing is stable anymore
I went from shuttered entrances
to a room full of swinging doors.
All I want to do is hide my face
and curl up in a ball
as not to face the raging storm.
Shingles rip menacingly from the rooftop,
glass shatters through the window panes
my hair caught in the cross winds,
my skin misted by inevitable torrential rain.
It all happens within
For outside I feign
happiness, progression
"you're doing amazing!"
my former demons victim to my succession.
But that's the funny thing about depression,
you can have everyone around you convinced
that you are so very okay,
that nothing could happen that would make your emotions sway.
But inside,
you're living within the eye of the storm
just trying to survive another day.
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