A Letter to Those Struggling

I know it seems hard

I know it seems endless

Stuck with no defendants

Screaming and crying

Never being enough

Not when they're all telling you

To shut the fuck up

Stuck in a room

Watching the empty ceiling

Your thoughts painting the blank canvas

Contemplating the worst

Becoming careless

So what if you're gone?

If you do nothing

It will be an endless battle

Of an ongoing war

Seems like pulling the switch to yourself

Will stop you being poor

Your dreams long ago shredded

Like the paper thin line of your emotions

Always starting explosions

Always being told that you're over dramatic

As if it were easy to control

The very thought you remember

Made by the very chemicals

You were told should be balanced

But instead fell off the tight rope

In between stability and insanity

Your tears breaking the fall

Confusion making the boat

Thoughts being the shore

And suddenly you're like them

Caught being stranded

No one to tell you that you are more than the best

Like a god you shape things

Creating the barren wasteland

Into a sea of exploration

And trust me

I know it may seem dark

But even in the night

There's is a shred a light

Like a diamond

Reflecting

You shine to the world your fight

I know the pain seems endless

I know pushing on seems impossible

But you are stronger than what you believe

There will come a time

Where you can sit

And be relieved

But today is not that day

There's so much you have yet to achieve

So unlock it

Turn that dagger into a key

And pick at the lock

It's only a matter of time

Until your counting the seconds

So they don't stop