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A burden with no instruction Manual
Sitting next to you watching you play your video games,
My mind starts to wonder until I rest my eyes upon our pictures in the frames.
They say “laughter is the best medicine”, but they forget to mention it is also the best form of camouflage used to mask the sadness in our hearts.
I warned you that I’m damaged but I lack an instruction manual for all my broken parts.
I can almost hear the laughter captured perfectly in a memory.
Oh How deceiving a picture can be!
How could I have been so oblivious to all the signs that the construction of me was overwhelming you?
Maybe apart of me didn’t want to face the reality that the pain I was in could hurt you too.
I long to live a life free from being a burden and spreading pain,
but despite my best efforts depression weighs me down like a heavy chain.
My mind starts to wonder until I rest my eyes upon our pictures in the frames.
They say “laughter is the best medicine”, but they forget to mention it is also the best form of camouflage used to mask the sadness in our hearts.
I warned you that I’m damaged but I lack an instruction manual for all my broken parts.
I can almost hear the laughter captured perfectly in a memory.
Oh How deceiving a picture can be!
How could I have been so oblivious to all the signs that the construction of me was overwhelming you?
Maybe apart of me didn’t want to face the reality that the pain I was in could hurt you too.
I long to live a life free from being a burden and spreading pain,
but despite my best efforts depression weighs me down like a heavy chain.
Published 2nd Apr 2021
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Join in with the video games, see where it takes you.
I've never really understood instruction manuals anyhow.
I've never really understood instruction manuals anyhow.
2nd Apr 2021 9:21pm
2nd Apr 2021 10:36pm
It certainly is a struggle to dwell on the thoughts that you might be too much for your partner and this piece, is so well worded in those fears, to the point that self doubt could be the sabotage to a relationship...as I also suffer from crippling doubt. I just hope that people can take, pros and cons
