;
there are going to be moments when you’re sad and you don’t know why
or maybe because middle school just plain sucks and your mom doesn’t understand
and maybe she never will
and maybe that bully is wrong
and maybe you’re not the things they think you are
and maybe that push pin is tempting to push into your skin and drag
to kill the thing you hate so much
but can’t identify
and maybe one day you’ll realize that real friends can’t be there
with you through everything and
they need breaks too
and the world doesn’t revolve around you the way you thought it did
and sometimes people leave your orbit
and sometimes you’ll be the one to walk away
and sometimes you’ll be the one left behind
and maybe that’s okay because you’re still alive
there are going to be moments when you’re sad and you think it’s stupid
because maybe there are voices in your head
that tell you you’re not pretty enough
to be liked by the boy in your third period
or because
he’s been acting the same way you have
only for another girl to tell you that he’s indecisive
and the only way to get out is to decide for him
or maybe it’s because all day you’ve felt like the gum
that sometimes sticks to the bottom of your worn shoes
and wished feelings could bleed out
and look the way injuries do
so it would be easier for the doctors to understand
what pain you’re really feeling
and i wish i could tell you
things will get better
but i can’t make promises the way you think i can
and i can’t make you believe you’re worth loving
and loving yourself is the only way
to get out of this pit you feel like you’re always crawling out of
but i can tell you to keep going
and i know it’s easy to say because everyone says that
and you’re angry because you’ve heard it all before
and you’re hanging on a thread
and you don’t know when the thread will snap but you know it’s soon
and you think disappearing is so much easier
and you argue that it isn’t dying but it isn’t living either
and what’s life without death anyways
but i want you to know
i’m still here and i made it out alive and
maybe you can too