Hide me underneath your wing
Protect me from the storm
Teach me how to breathe again
Keep me safe and warm
I cannot fight the war
What are we even fighting for?
I can't win this battle
All on my own...
Someone save me now,
Before I fall apart,
And stop this beating heart,
From beating anymore
So please, save me...
After all,
What are we fighting for?
It feels as if my reflection
Points a gun at its own head,
As my bullet shoots the mirror
And paints the floor with red,
And it feels as if my gun
Just isn't steady in my hand,
Because darling, when I jump off cliffs,
Do you think I always land?
It feels as if the razor blade
Might be my only friend,
And it feels as if the broken glass
Might soon begin to bend,
Because my reflection is distorted, love.
Can't you see that, love, can't you see?
I'm pointing a gun at the mirror,
And the mirror points back at me.
i wrote my first suicide letter in 10th grade.
they told me it didn't count if you felt like dying
unless you had it down on paper
like a vetoed birth certificate.
i've rewritten it enough times since
to realize i could never leave with a proper goodbye.
goodbye is too heavy a word for paper to hold
and i was never brave enough for the kind of courage it takes to tell them
why.
why they weren't enough to keep me here.
but i'm finally learning a different kind of bravery-
the kind it takes to
stay.
stay.
i learned to wear death
like rope burn my junior year
my senior year we became friends
but i finally stopped cutting the insides of wrist
I fell down. I got up.
I fall again.
I feel. I hurt.
I am waiting... waiting for the clouds to break... and the sun to make it's way through the rift...
Just a crack of light.
That's all I plead.
But yet that seems too much to ask.
I shouldn't be waiting, I should be acting.
Acting.
Acting.
Waiting isn't going to get me anywhere.
I'm a bad kid
Why?
Because bad kids break rules
I break the same rule everyday
You're not supposed to wear masks in school
I wear an emotional mask, hiding what I don't want seen
Depression (in Eight Parts) by tinkertype, literature
Literature
Depression (in Eight Parts)
I.
I took a walk once, and
Depression walked alongside me.
"I want to be alone," I told him.
"I know," he replied,
"Why do you think I'm here?"
II.
"I have a plan,"
Depression said to me.
"Not today," I said.
"I'm tired."
He frowned and asked,
"How did you know my plan?"
III.
I gave the weekend over to Depression
but he took three days
instead of two.
"Think of it as an investment," he said.
"And maybe I'll let you have a Friday night
without regrets."
IV.
Fallen to the floor
I look up and see
he's smiling at me.
"You know what they say
about old dogs."
He's doing this on purpose,
I know he is-
and it's working.
"They can't l
The Half-Finished Life I Live by ElvenrangerBri, literature
Literature
The Half-Finished Life I Live
Remember that trip I declined your offer on?
I wish I didn't.
Remember that question you asked me?
I wish I had said yes.
Remember that advice you gave me on life?
I wish I had taken it.
Remember that accident?
I wish I had helped with the aftermath.
Remember what I did with my life?
Of course you don't.
How can you remember something I never did?
Forever in an unjust life
I live alone
No one to lean on
No one to love
No one to call my own in any way.
Who do I rely on?
Who cares for me?
Who calls me their own?
What do I do?
Everyone I know has someone to love and live for
Why not me?
Why them? What makes them so different?
Everyone says life isn’t fair
But why couldn’t life at least do this for me?
This is unjust in the extreme
But who am I to ask what is just and unjust?
Why would I even get the notion that I know the difference?
What did I even do to life to deserve this?
All I wanted was to be like others.
Why couldn’t I at least get that?
Every
Why walk when I can run?
Why frown when I can smile?
Why talk when I can sing?
Why stand when I can dance?
Why cry when I can laugh?
I walk for I have no energy
I frown for I have no joy
I talk for I have no happy lyrics
I stand for I have no motivation
And I cry for the one thing I do have: depression.