u/Foreign-Contest9812

idk why but

there's a creeping sadness ringing inside my head  half of it all could defeat me half of it i escape by the virtue of art. days blink past me when I forget about the sorrow. but it's not gonna go now 

it stays with me through the morning sunlight and the evening breeze.

i lay a hand for help from the outside world,

warmth from someone close

but alas nobody sees it

nor does anybody want to 

but that's not their fault.

and what keeps knocking my head is that I cannot even say what it really is. no trauma I can point at, no wound i can think of

only this heaviness that seems to grow in places nobody can reach 

but if I am being honest 

most of this sorrow wears my own name

i let it grow inside me i let it consume me i let it start and go on and on

in the promises i made to my self 

and broke in silence 

the endless self talk

my mind thinks too much.

then thinks about thinking

then watches itself drown in the very thoughts it created

i tell myself I'll begin tommorow i tell myself tonight will be different i build entire sunsets in my head 

disciplined verions of me. but I never do.its hard. 

the constant negotiations, the exhausting conversations with myself, the invisible wars the guilt

and so i escape to the things that do not ask questions

music,skies,films,pages, late night thoughts.

because art has never asked me to pretend lighter than i was.

but how far can i escape 

now the song ends, the movies go,the room grows honest again

and there I am 

getting tired of carrying it alone

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u/Foreign-Contest9812 — 9 days ago