dailydoodles

like right now 

i’m needing nothing more than for you to hug me 

and if you do 

i’m gonna scream like a caged bird 

— truthfully, i feel like this sometimes 

We wear the mask that grins and lies, 

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, -

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, 

And mouth with myriad subtleties. 

Why should the world be over-wise, 

In counting all our tears and our sighs? Nay, let them only see us, whil e

We wear the mask. 

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries 

To thee from tortured souls arise. 

We sing, but oh the clay is vile 

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise, 

We wear the mask! 

— Paul Laurence Dunbar 

Why must we put up this fake facade in order for people to think we are fine. What a different world we would live in if we shared our feelings. 

how can something so small, so insignificant tear your life apart? how can timing be so off, that all you feel is numbness? how can someone just sit there and watch you suffer and do nothing? how can this be happening to me?

a year ago i was perfectly content and now my world has been flipped upside down and im hanging on by a string. what do i do? im in a sea of swirling emotions, drowning me, ripping me to pieces…