I Promise You

I promise you I care

This I know for sure.

I promise you I’m here

Just maybe not to stay.

I promise you I’m fine

Just in my own way.

I promise you I’m trying

I swear I always have been.

I promise you I’m hanging on

If by just a thread.

I promise you I’m sorry

For all the pain I’ve caused.

I promise you I’ll still be here

I’ll still be here tomorrow.

I promise you I’m fighting hard

Trying to win the war.

I promise you I know

How badly it would hurt.

I promise you I love you

That will never change.

Posted in response to the challenge PAST CONTESTS – Teenager: In Writing.

Fainting Goat

UT

15 years old

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    Some days

    It’s hard to find

    A reason

    To get out of bed

    The depression claws

    At me

    Begging me

    To just stay there

    Sink into the darkness

    And disappear

    But I don’t want to

    Do that

  • My Best Friend

    As I stood there

    Crying in the rain

    I stopped and stared

    At the sunset before me

    My tears fell faster

    As I remembered

    The feel of his arms

    Around me

    And thought of how

    Distant he’s been

  • Waking Up

    Look

    I’m sick and tired of all this shit and pretending

    Look

    I’m sick and tired of all the fairytale endings

    Look

    I don’t know how I’m supposed to survive like this

    But look