Inside and Out

Inside I am falling apart

Like rain clouds, I hold it in till I burst...

Tears running down my face like a rainstorm

Wanting to scream as loud as the thunder, because maybe, just maybe, someone will hear my cries...

But on the outside...

I smile as bright as the sun

I laugh like the ocean waves on a nice summer day

Like an earthquake, I want to make the earth shake, because maybe then someone will notice the storm I am fighting alone...

Maybe someone will notice that I am lost and I am alone...

Swept up in the waves that I no longer control

Drowning in my own tears and fears nowhere left to go

I feel like there is an anchor pulling me down

Deeper, and deeper into my own sorrow

Just one breath is all I ask for, one moment of peace...

Just one summer breeze, I want to hear the bees, I want to see all seven seas, I want to be free...