Insight

Hello I am your mind Let me give you some insight You are breathing too heavily Your heart is beating too fast Another panic attack like that And you surely won’t last Another day Another encounter At seven years old Your family was torn apart At ten years old It got even worse But do you know what really hurts? The way you try to ignore yourself It’s disturbing You’re lying to yourself, kid You’re becoming someone you’re not At twelve years old You were depressed When you turned fifteen You were so overweight Why did you let yourself go Why would you just stop caring I’ll tell you why You were too sad and afraid of everything You stopped caring about yourself because you were useless You were broken You were ugly and annoying You were alone At seventeen you figured it all out You discovered more about yourself than you ever knew was possible Hello Are you still listening I’m telling your story because you need to hear it Stop shutting me out and listen to the truth, da**** You stubborn little as*****, don’t you see This is the way things were meant to be Your heart was broken but you didn’t give up You could have, and you probably should have But you kept fighting instead That’s not a coincidence That’s your heart telling you something that I never could have You have more strength than you thought you did You have more love in you than I do You’re almost nineteen now and you’re becoming a man Learning things about yourself that are amazing Beautiful Discovering opportunities left and right Exploring love and relationships You went through so much tragedy So much s*** But you climbed that rope You didn’t let it go You survived I don’t know why But isn’t that enough to keep going