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The Only Thing Left To Do
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.

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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.