The Cage
Depression.
It’s like a cage.
Separating her from happiness
And feeling.
All she can feel is pain
And sorrow.
Her cage, although solid and strong,
Is unseen.
Because she feels like no one cares to look
Closer.
And if someone
Something
Slips through the bars of her cage
She thinks that they care.
She trusts them.
And then they turn on her.
Take everything.
And leave her
Broken and alone
Again.
But it’s worse than before.
Because now she know what she’s missing.
And she can’t do anything about it.
Because her cage is back.
He took everything but the cage
And her life.
Since they didn’t take it,
She tries to.
But the cage holds.
And something always stops her from dying.
The memory of him stops her.
Every time.
And then another breaks through the cage.
But she doesn’t let them in.
Making excuses to keep them away.
But they stay.
Waiting outside her cage for the day that she lets them in.
She doesn’t say it,
But she’s afraid.
She lets them in.
But it’s not the same.
She still hide things.
They tell her everything about them
She hides herself.
They tell you everything will be fine.
She listens.
She tells them
She tell them about him.
They listen.
They tell you they don’t care.
They still love you.
She loves them too.
But she’s still afraid.
They help her
With her sadness.
She remembers what it’s like to feel.
She’s almost getting better.
But fear holds her back.
Still.
They help bring back
Confidence.
But then
Schools back.
And hell comes back.
They try to help her.
But he makes it harder.
She doesn’t love him.
Not anymore.
But it hurts still.
Her old scars are reopened.
And no matter how they try.
They can’t heal them.
Can’t fix what’s wrong with her.
After a while they stop.
She thinks they will
Leave
Again.
But they don’t.
They stop trying to fix her.
But they surprise her.
They accept her.
For what she is.
She feels again.
The school means nothing.
She has them.
And the acceptance fixes her.
Who knew that was the only thing she needed?
She just needed someone to accept her.