Challenge
Are You Happy?
Take this in any direction you want.
happy now?
Am I happy?
The simple answer is “no”
But I should elaborate
So I guess here I go
Waking up every morning
Hating that I woke up
Isn’t happiness at all
If I ever knew what it was
Contemplating suicide
Keeping it to myself
Because I already said
I don’t need any help
It seems so far away
And I can't help it
Hope is gone, and so am I
I stay in my shell like a shellfish
People care
But I push away the love
I so desperately beg for
Then take what I can like an addict to drugs
I’m scared to vent
I don’t want to be a burden
So nobody gets to know
When I am hurting
Because my problems are my own
Locked myself in this house
I chose alone
So, am I happy?
The simple answer is “no”
Because I hate myself
And that is all that I know
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