Survive

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Endless buzzing, ringing, screaming. It's all I hear. I bottle it up and hide it because no one else should be disturbed by it.

There's pain inside, but it gets to a point where you can be numb to it. I feel it, but where it used to be branding me, it's just tapping me. It's not killing me the way it used to, even though something is.

There's a part of me that can close off everything to the outside world. Pretend that I'm perfectly fine. Honestly, I like that it's there. I don't think I can explain what broke me again without writing it.

I wish I could say I feel nothing. That I'm left just thriving. But I feel everything.  It's what's killing me slowly. I'm so tired all the time. I have no real motivation to do anything.

I'm having to survive myself. I get in bad ruts and can't escape them. Funny how that works huh? I have become my living nightmare.

Is it odd for a thirteen year old to already have to be surviving instead of living?

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