Poetry for people who could use a little kindness

Don’t Hide

Some days I sink down
Pulled down by dark thoughts
Suffocating, drowning
in a pit of black tar

But the world doesn’t want to know
They expect all of us to smile
Blissfully ignorant of the struggles
Going on all around them

They use words like “burden”
“attention-seeking”, “drama queen”
To make us hide ourselves and our problems
Because they don’t understand

They don’t want to see the darkness
But the darkness is just as important as the light

So please don’t hide yourself from me
I’m struggling too, so I understand
I know how hard it is, but I also know
that we don’t have to do this alone

#Poetry #MentalHealth

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