Pull out my phone
Put on the headphones
Maybe a mask
Runaway from the group of people before me
It feels like there's a zipper on my lips causing my silence
Like there's a rope tying my hands to my phone
Glue keeping my eyes from looking up into yours
" Don't look at them, you'll look weird"
" Don't make a scene"
" Be invisible"
I try to cover my body with jeans and hoodies
Trying to shield myself from the eyes that are on me.
I'm going out when I have to but I would rather stay home
I can't meet people by myself
Nobody realizes that
Some people extend tremendous
Energy merely to be
Normal
- Albert Camus
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Mental Illness Poems
PoesíaAs a mental illness survivor. I decided to write poems about whats it's like to have a mental illness. If you are struggling please know you're not alone. You don't deserve to live like that. You can beat it even if it doesn't go away. I believe in...
