"You have to be selfish to get what you want," they said.
B-but I'm not selfish.
If I were,
I would have ended my life long ago.
Sometimes I just wish I could disappear without hurting anyone.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse but,
there's always going to be someone who would get hurt if I left.So I just hurt myself
because if I didn't,
I would end up hurting everyone around me.
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Trapped in my own head
PoesiShe is an outcast. She finds it easier to express what she feels in the form of writing. Whether it is poems, letters or long texts. These are poems that she writes trying to describe how it feels to live with certain mental health issues, in a worl...