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
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