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The Only Thing Left To Do

January 25, 2021
By Serenityjade16 BRONZE, Dayton, Ohio
Serenityjade16 BRONZE, Dayton, Ohio
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They say happiness will find you

But I think sadness finds you too

It sneaks up on you in darkness

Just when you think you made it through

It opens holes in what as solid ground 

The kind you never know are there

Until you go take another step

And find your standing over air

The world around you passes by

In blurs of color and sound

Nothing around you making sense 

As you continue your plummet down

You can’t remember how it started

And you don’t know when it will end

But you know that you’d give anything

To stand up on your feet again

Sadness is that feeling 

When the falling doesn’t stop

And it saps your life of meaning

And all the good things you’ve got

So when you finally hit rock bottom 

And you look back up at the sky

What you had seems so far away

The only thing left to do is cry

People all yell lout “save yourself” 

Calling out things like happiness and hope

But they’re too busy with their lives to realize 

It’d be a lot quicker if they let down a rope.


The author's comments:

I wrote this peom during my freshman year in high school.  I wrote it so that when other poeple read it, they can kind of know how I feel, or they could relate to it. I suffer from Major Depressive Disorder, and I went through some rough stuff freshman year. So writing out how I feel really helps me.


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