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You're still here

May 20, 2018
By julymaireann BRONZE, Lexington, North Carolina
julymaireann BRONZE, Lexington, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.
-Ernest Hemingway


Imagine you’re in a room
Some can be BIG or small
But near the top of the ceiling is a light
One you can barely see 

You’re lying on the ground
Wishing for someone to hear your muffled cries

For anyone to just come and pick you up

And someone does
They save you from the pit of insanity you were engrossed in

You see a staircase appear
Only one step
But as you find others who can help you

Who wants to help
More stairs appear

And sometimes they can break
When your walls come crashing down

And you want to give in

You just want to go back to the eternal slumber you were so desperate to stay in
But when you start to rebuild again
They build faster
And faster

Until you find a door with the light from before shining from underneath
You feel the warmth radiating from it
A warmth you haven’t felt in years
It’s just your decision to allow yourself to feel that again

To feel love
Hope
All the things you lost
You have to allow yourself to accept who you are
Be who you are
Not the character you’ve created
The monsters you’d seen
No longer would scare you

While others have gone on before you 

Who got too tired 

You kept going

You're still here


The author's comments:

   I wrote this poem as a letter of forgiveness. The original poem is much longer, but this part is what always stood out to me. When I was dealing with my depression, I did it alone. Until I was finally able to talk to someone about it, which was the best decision I've ever made. My hope for this piece is that others can fight the battle that comes along with depression and that they can find someone, or even build up the courage to ask for help.


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