have you ever noticed
the bags under her eyes.
or the anger issues
that she has?
her hallow cheeks
and cracked lips
still forced into a smile.
struggling to show everyone
that she's a fighter
that she'll be alright.
no one bothered
to hold her close, to tell her
that it's okay not to
be fine.
so she breathed through her life
as if it were a battlefield
and wish that one day she would live
and not just survive.
