EMPATHIC LIVES

I can see things

Deep emotional things

Others can’t

Their eyes tell me stories

Only their heart can tell

Those with the saddest eyes

Have the most beautiful smiles

Nobody ever told them

It is ok to be sad

It is true…

In our society

Depression is weakness

We have to be funny

We either shine like the sun

Or we are banished into dark

But depression leaks out

When we are tired

Exhausted of pretending

And my friend

She was tired

She was exhausted

And

She cried in my arms

And I could do nothing

To wash away her scars

To eliminate her pain

And her agony found me

And I was tortured

In her name