Dead Inside

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On the outside you're ablaze and alive... But you're dead inside.

There's a snowstorm.
Thick snowflakes fall, making an impenetrable wall.
I can't get past, no one can.
Or maybe they can.
I can see them, on the other side of the wall.
They laugh and chat, happy.
Happy.
Maybe that's why I'm trapped behind the wall.
They're happy.
I'm not.
Is that why I can't get through?
Because I'm not happy?
I wish they could get through.
Then I wouldn't be alone in the snowstorm.
The sky is white, the ground is white, everything is white.
Apart from a trail of red.
Questions surface.
I want them to go, but they won't.
It worries me.
Lots of thing worry me.
Snow blinding me.
Its all I see, it's all I hear.
My mind is fuzzy, and not working.
I want it to work.
Why won't it work?
Is it because it needs happiness?
I don't know.
I don't know a lot of things.
Like why I can't cross the wall.
I've tried.
It hurt.
If I smile, will it work?
Does smiling make you happy?
I don't know.
It's another thing I don't know.
Maybe I'll smile.
Up off the ground.
Towards the wall.
At the wall.
Through the wall.
Through the wall.
I stop smiling.
I'm not going back there,
But I don't like it here.
Everyone's alive.
I don't like being alive.
I don't know how.

On the outside I'm ablaze and alive... But I'm dead inside.

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