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For When It Won't Get Better
The sky is falling
The gentle cool blue feathers down around me
Leaving black chips in the top of the planet
Missing cracks in what used to be such a lovely sight
Pieces of the clouds hit my head
Everytime I hear others tell me 'you look so much like your mother'
Leaving me turning all my mirrors around
Wanting to crawl out of my own skin
The sun crashes down in front of me
Because my mother's hair is turning gray
I wonder if its because I broke her heart
Or if it's because she knows she broke mine
Whenever I was born she fell out of love with me
Like an old lover that you couldnt get rid of
She brought me into this world
Made me a mistake
So now im afraid I'm taking up too much space
Simply by existing
As if my body itself is a burden
I go through my life
Shrinking to fit other peoples preferred sizes
The stars hit the ground like raindrops
Because this is the 5th day in a row I couldn’t get myself out of bed
Every night I take sleeping pills and the world drops dead for 10 hours only for all to be born again and with a dreadful feeling I hear the birds chirping outside of my window
I know it feels like the sky is out to get you sometimes but we must find beauty in the cracks because with all the bad that plagues us there has to be good
So I stopped looking up
To see if there is anything left
And just watched it fall apart
You could make art out of the ruins
And everyday
As I see the pieces crash down
I wonder to myself
Was the sky even meant to stay at all

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