It hurts

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I feel so strange

I feel like there is a pit of emptiness inside me

I want to smile and laugh

I want to pretend that I was the same way I was last week

I suppose that thinking about this made it worse

I want to fill that pit

But I can't

Someone else might be able to

But that person isn't real

I look in the mirror

How can someone that looks like me feel the way I feel

PLEASE

MAKE THE PAIN GO AWAY

IT HURTS

IT ACHES

but I can't cry it away

Making visible scars changes nothing

The music that once filled the hole now only fills my head

What is happening to me?

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