I’m tired.721Please respect copyright.PENANAX0kWVtAt2u
If I’m honest, the days keep dragging by721Please respect copyright.PENANAN9e0dhrp0n
and my feet are sliding across the floor instead721Please respect copyright.PENANAaqHf0lER0X
of lifting with each step because I can’t find the energy721Please respect copyright.PENANAqGML6E4kS8
to pick them up and set them back down.721Please respect copyright.PENANAn1hHm2iZAB
Some people turn and ask me to stop scuffing721Please respect copyright.PENANAhYVb8LMGVP
my feet on the floor, please lift them up and walk721Please respect copyright.PENANA4jBsXhKPz2
like a normal person, thank you.721Please respect copyright.PENANAf4ovvOYr9h
I try.721Please respect copyright.PENANAtu53vPdz0x
I try everyday to lift myself up and keep walking721Please respect copyright.PENANA0rN1X7Dlwv
but like my feet, I am scuffing across the ground721Please respect copyright.PENANAIKI8i2D0gU
just barely making it from one place to another721Please respect copyright.PENANAdD9jGfRaOr
without damage.
I’m tired.721Please respect copyright.PENANAFXcu8AKgmd
Just this Wednesday I was driving home721Please respect copyright.PENANA7vJM4BgbGo
on the highway, 480 West from Brookpark Road721Please respect copyright.PENANAszMLuWFnvg
where the RTA takes me to Cleveland for classes, and721Please respect copyright.PENANAP93cq8Akzv
during the drive, I couldn’t focus on the road before me721Please respect copyright.PENANAu2xcvKqKU3
because the news that Trump had won left me shaken721Please respect copyright.PENANAjpc1q4FVqc
for those I’m not sure how to help721Please respect copyright.PENANA2mtRibKh4g
when I’ve been given a privilege I didn’t ask for.721Please respect copyright.PENANAzFD7cVLSDA
And while I was driving down the highway721Please respect copyright.PENANAuQ05WIaqWM
I contemplated the notion of jerking the wheel721Please respect copyright.PENANACaLpaX653L
to the left and letting my car hit the divide between the721Please respect copyright.PENANAwRPh36FD7w
highway East and the highway West; allow myself to721Please respect copyright.PENANAP4HlcXwP6H
collide with the wall, break through and destroy721Please respect copyright.PENANALXX3TjSkXG
the other side.721Please respect copyright.PENANANVoehTAxZ5
Then, I contemplated jerking the wheel to the right721Please respect copyright.PENANABjM67xcnip
into the ditch along the grass so I wouldn’t721Please respect copyright.PENANAvMwVhTVcR5
harm anyone else in the process. But I721Please respect copyright.PENANAhE1r39M3KD
didn’t do either, even though I721Please respect copyright.PENANANoZp1X70wr
got so scared for a minute721Please respect copyright.PENANAmBGm2mQje1
that I would.
I’m tired.721Please respect copyright.PENANAeXU1hAIq2V
Last year on August 22nd, my birthday, I had a similar721Please respect copyright.PENANAqno8gLAV5m
reaction to suicidal thoughts. I had a rough721Please respect copyright.PENANAp7tXLfrtDF
birthday; I worked, I was lonely, I felt721Please respect copyright.PENANAZcaQo7EpJe
pathetic, worthless, uncared for and forgotten721Please respect copyright.PENANANirpWF6Ytb
so I took the sharpest and largest kitchen knife721Please respect copyright.PENANAlMfFmSsMQK
and I pressed the tip of it to my chest, above my heart721Please respect copyright.PENANAssHBpF4x7W
and sobbed until I couldn’t sob anymore.721Please respect copyright.PENANAKL8GIBqv7S
I did not press the sharp edge deep enough to721Please respect copyright.PENANAAQTdkKjmNm
draw blood, but it was the first time721Please respect copyright.PENANAss5xiq7HIH
I had allowed myself to721Please respect copyright.PENANA5jgZooZkxl
get so close to the temptation.
I’m tired.721Please respect copyright.PENANATFfVqRYduH
I say that I want to die a lot, even though I never721Please respect copyright.PENANAV02Nw9z9xH
actually reach out and go through with it721Please respect copyright.PENANAt26arKiSn9
I think because I’m afraid of not existing721Please respect copyright.PENANA3F6hJzRFuu
just as I’m afraid of existing. And lately I721Please respect copyright.PENANAC0smEzU4fe
have people who reach out to me when I’m not sure721Please respect copyright.PENANAsq4ULftvYG
how to reach out to them, and it’s sweet to have people721Please respect copyright.PENANAL8omEqOav4
support me, but I go right back to wanting to isolate myself721Please respect copyright.PENANAdpPGzcql0M
and give up. I have thought about dying every day721Please respect copyright.PENANApazWyvDvTA
for the last few weeks and I wish I could just721Please respect copyright.PENANAqC0bXcAkg5
go through with it.
I’m tired.721Please respect copyright.PENANA283GEnWlIk
I’m so tired of being forgotten, of arguing721Please respect copyright.PENANAXTK0Z0Bivc
for people to care about me when they should721Please respect copyright.PENANAV9E4XIaZXN
care about me on their own. I often think that721Please respect copyright.PENANAfIIn7siLq0
I should just stop putting in such an effort for those that721Please respect copyright.PENANAMOKQOpGTun
do not consider me, but I can’t seem to stop caring.721Please respect copyright.PENANAysxtcEJ5Hq
She often hurts me more than she improves my life721Please respect copyright.PENANA25rspL5hTd
but I’m too afraid to say anything because721Please respect copyright.PENANAyJ6aDnwVgO
I need her. I need her to exist721Please respect copyright.PENANAe0SUXAyfv5
in my existence, and I need her to721Please respect copyright.PENANAAv68ab7F5U
be by my side.721Please respect copyright.PENANAAhgiXDSNXv
But I’m tired.
I’m tired721Please respect copyright.PENANAf12pQf8f0i
of being tired721Please respect copyright.PENANA47bLX3kUPB
in this tiring life.