it will be okay, we'll be okay (one day)

please, just be honest, stop suppressing it

you hide it and they think you're okay

so they pile more things onto your shoulders

and by the time they realize

you were never okay

you're on the floor

suffocating beneath the debris of

all the obligations, expectations

that were far too heavy for

your body, your being

just know

that it will be okay,

but it's okay if it isn't just yet;

okay?