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152 · Aug 2017
Exhaustion
Tiffany Aug 2017
I am tired.

I am tired of not being able to trust my own mind.

Anxiety ravaging my psyche, building walls I worked so hard to tear down.
Depression developing like cancer in my soul, blotting out the love and joy from life like thunder clouds suppressing the sun.

I am tired of my body working against me.

Fatigue forcing me to stand back as I watch life race ahead. Migraines that keep me locked in the darkness like a long forgotten memory.

I am tired of the necessity for a never ending list of drugs.

The harsh light of the doctors office as we discuss our options. Adding pill after pill to keep my mind and body above water.

But mostly, over everything else, I am tired of being tired.
147 · Aug 2017
growth
Tiffany Aug 2017
i think it's both funny and sad
you assumed i'd come running back
the way you manipulate the truth
expecting my will to bend to yours
like a tree bowing to the winds of a mighty hurricane
i learned what it's like to find a love
that flows steady and strong like the river
and now i can look back
at the girl who used to be
and know the woman today
is too strong to fall back
into arms so much like the rose
- beautiful and tempting to the eyes,
but concealing rows of thorns
that stab into the mind body and soul

— The End —