You wish THEY knew the truth.
Do THEY wonder what it feels like?
Could you tell them if you tried?
Do THEY even want to know the truth—can they handle it?
Or should you lie?
Well, here it is.
Will THEY still be here?
Pain devours. It exhausts. It destroys.
It crushes, pulses, stings, aches, grinds, clicks, cramps, strains.
It pricks, twinges, agonises, pinches, drags, pulls, tears.
It burns.
Burns away dreams, passions, desires.
Burns away sleep—what sleep?
Un-refreshing sleep. Disturbed sleep. Exhausting sleep.
Medicated sleep. No sleep.
You lie awake, drowning in exhaustion.
Yet the pain never lets you go.
Medication—brutal, relentless. You’ve tried so many, just to feel something, anything, other than the pain.
But pain is a thief, staining happiness, twisting joy into something fleeting,
Something fragile, something aching.
And yet—you fight.
Because you have to.
Because you can’t stop.
So here it is.
What now?
Silence.
A look of concern.
An avalanche of platitudes.
More silence.
Deafening silence.
Do THEY actually care?
Oh, THEY mean well. That’s what they say.
But their silence?
It’s sharp.
It cuts deeper than words ever could.
Please—don’t run away. Don’t stop asking us to play.
It hurts that we can’t keep up.
But we’re still here.
Do you see us?
Slowly, THEY pull away…
You remind them of their own vulnerability.
Pain is lonely and isolating.
You’ll never let them know the truth—the times you nearly ran.
The nights you sobbed, shattered, unseen.
The frustration, the anger—so much pain that will never go away.
When you’re gone, all that’s left behind is their memory of you.
Not your dreams, not your hopes.
Not who you wanted to be.
Aspirations fade into whispers.
But you fight.
Every day.
Every hour.
Every minute.
Every second.
You go to bed hurting.
You wake up hurting.
You breathe through the pain.
You carry it.
You live it.
It never ends.
Do I care?
Hell yes, I care.
I never stop.
I NEED them to see the real me
Caz Morgan
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