The days blend together
The nights lonely
No solace offered
Time dragging on
Paste on a smile
So no one is uncomfortable
Go through the motions
What else is there to do
You try to tell them
But instead of listening
They tell you cheer up
You have everything
No reason to be sad
No reason to drown
No reason to make
Everyone else feel down
It’s all lip service
No one wants to know
What happens inside
The confines of your mind
Though they ask
Over and over
Are you ok?
What can I do?
I am not sure
How else to say it
I am not ok
I am never ok
Maybe there is nothing
You can do
But let me burn
To ash
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Ash by Idgie Stark is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
