DEPRESSION

Do you know what it feels like to just float around, not living life?

Especially when a million people just push you down.

Pressure builds, and you just want to scream in agony.

Repressed emotions fight to the surface.

Excruciating pain, like nothing you've ever felt before.

Sounds are just too much, and you can't deal with it.

Sensory overload, you need to hide.

Isolating yourself, unwilling to face the problems.

Overwhelming. Everything is overwhelming.

Nobody sees. You're falling and nobody sees.

Posted in response to the challenge Acrostic.

Fainting Goat

UT

15 years old

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    I'm scared.

    I can't believe we're here

    Again.

    I can't believe this is reality

    Again.

    Four years

    They say.

    It's only four years.

    But it's four years

    Of a living hell for me.

    They laugh

  • The Sorrow

    The sorrow I know

    Is like no other.

    It is too deep

    Too raw

    Too real.

    And as I stand here

    Within its everlasting clutches

    I find little bursts of hope.

    And these little burst of light