"Hi, my name is-"
"I really don't care."
"You-what?"
"Don't care. About what your name is."
"Well, um ok "
"Names aren't important. They don't tell me anything about you."
"I don't think I understand."
"I don't care what your name is, because it doesn't matter. Not really."
"Fine. Then tell me, what is important?"
"I want to know who you are. As a person. Not a label. Tell me something interesting, amazing."
"But I'm not-"
"Tell me something average, completely ordinary. This is your moment. I've never met you before in my life. I have no preconceived notions, no way to judge you."
"So, what do you want me to say?"
"Any
Locked in a bathroom
So no one has to see
Panic consume
Anxiety destroy
Shallow breaths, tight chest
Just me, and the girl in the mirror
Telling me to
Just
Shut
Up
No one wants to see your tears
No one cares that you're falling apart
Labored breaths, pull it together
Wipe away, makeup running
Down tear stained cheeks
Pale face, twist it
Make it the mask you want people to see
Make sure there are no cracks
To let the girl beneath out
Unlock the door
Contain your hell
And smile like it isn't a lie
Fake Smiles for You by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Fake Smiles for You
I don't understand you
It's as if you're trying your very hardest
to make yourself unhappy
why don't you just try to smile
and stop acting like such a child
.
.
.
Yes, or course
your logic is infallible
I must try my hardest
to make myself miserable
because I absolutely love
feeling completely worthless
there's no other explanation
obviously this depression
the one that is drowning me
must be of my own choosing
I guess I could try to smile
even though every grin
results in more tears
than I care to admit
but if it will ease your guilt
of knowing that perhaps
you are to blame
for the unstable child
hiding inside my he
I'm choking on all the words I should have said
And tripping on all the chances I didn't take
Cutting myself on broken dreams
And falling asleep to the lullaby of a heart
That doesn't beat quite right anymore
The thread that holds me together
Is coming undone
And the needles that have so often stitched me back up
Are no where to be found
The path that I once followed
Has disappeared from beneath my feet
I've drifted from the life I was once content to live
And I'm lost
So lost
Loosing it more everyday
And I'm afraid that soon
I won't be just lost
But I'll be gone completely
where dreams go to die
and broken hearts lie
and bleed on the ground
there's hardly a sound
just the whispering cry
of a soul's heavy sigh
Inside of my head
where dreams are found dead
it's almost funny
the way you seem to think everything is fine
as if you didn't rip out my heart
just to break it into pieces
and now what?
you think you can just give it back
and that everything can return
to how it was before?
it's almost funny
but not quite
because broken hearts are not so easily fixed
and it takes more than some false words and super glue to do the trick
Live, Laugh, Love by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Live, Laugh, Love
live like you aren't dying
laugh like it's not tearing you apart
love as if you have a heart
that hasn't been shattered into a thousand pieces
and is not broken beyond repair
Madness is Catching by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Madness is Catching
You might want to be careful, because madness is catching
Slipping through the cracks in your mind and finding a hold
To distort your reality into a twisted fantasy
Yes, madness is catching, sweeping the globe, a flame to oil
This madness is a fire but it never stops burning, is always consuming
It will consume your mind, your body, your soul
Madness is catching and it's already wrapped it sick fingers around my mind
Madness has caught me and i can't escape now....please, won't you join me?
For My Mentality's Sake by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
For My Mentality's Sake
Someone let me out
I think I'm going crazy
I can't take this anymore
The walls are closing in on me
Trapped inside my own head
My mind has already snapped
I'm fading from reality
Living in forgotten memories
Forgetting who I'm supposed to be
Lost in a world of fantasies
"Hi, my name is-"
"I really don't care."
"You-what?"
"Don't care. About what your name is."
"Well, um ok "
"Names aren't important. They don't tell me anything about you."
"I don't think I understand."
"I don't care what your name is, because it doesn't matter. Not really."
"Fine. Then tell me, what is important?"
"I want to know who you are. As a person. Not a label. Tell me something interesting, amazing."
"But I'm not-"
"Tell me something average, completely ordinary. This is your moment. I've never met you before in my life. I have no preconceived notions, no way to judge you."
"So, what do you want me to say?"
"Any
Locked in a bathroom
So no one has to see
Panic consume
Anxiety destroy
Shallow breaths, tight chest
Just me, and the girl in the mirror
Telling me to
Just
Shut
Up
No one wants to see your tears
No one cares that you're falling apart
Labored breaths, pull it together
Wipe away, makeup running
Down tear stained cheeks
Pale face, twist it
Make it the mask you want people to see
Make sure there are no cracks
To let the girl beneath out
Unlock the door
Contain your hell
And smile like it isn't a lie
Fake Smiles for You by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Fake Smiles for You
I don't understand you
It's as if you're trying your very hardest
to make yourself unhappy
why don't you just try to smile
and stop acting like such a child
.
.
.
Yes, or course
your logic is infallible
I must try my hardest
to make myself miserable
because I absolutely love
feeling completely worthless
there's no other explanation
obviously this depression
the one that is drowning me
must be of my own choosing
I guess I could try to smile
even though every grin
results in more tears
than I care to admit
but if it will ease your guilt
of knowing that perhaps
you are to blame
for the unstable child
hiding inside my he
I'm choking on all the words I should have said
And tripping on all the chances I didn't take
Cutting myself on broken dreams
And falling asleep to the lullaby of a heart
That doesn't beat quite right anymore
The thread that holds me together
Is coming undone
And the needles that have so often stitched me back up
Are no where to be found
The path that I once followed
Has disappeared from beneath my feet
I've drifted from the life I was once content to live
And I'm lost
So lost
Loosing it more everyday
And I'm afraid that soon
I won't be just lost
But I'll be gone completely
where dreams go to die
and broken hearts lie
and bleed on the ground
there's hardly a sound
just the whispering cry
of a soul's heavy sigh
Inside of my head
where dreams are found dead
it's almost funny
the way you seem to think everything is fine
as if you didn't rip out my heart
just to break it into pieces
and now what?
you think you can just give it back
and that everything can return
to how it was before?
it's almost funny
but not quite
because broken hearts are not so easily fixed
and it takes more than some false words and super glue to do the trick
Live, Laugh, Love by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Live, Laugh, Love
live like you aren't dying
laugh like it's not tearing you apart
love as if you have a heart
that hasn't been shattered into a thousand pieces
and is not broken beyond repair
Madness is Catching by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
Madness is Catching
You might want to be careful, because madness is catching
Slipping through the cracks in your mind and finding a hold
To distort your reality into a twisted fantasy
Yes, madness is catching, sweeping the globe, a flame to oil
This madness is a fire but it never stops burning, is always consuming
It will consume your mind, your body, your soul
Madness is catching and it's already wrapped it sick fingers around my mind
Madness has caught me and i can't escape now....please, won't you join me?
For My Mentality's Sake by AnotherBrokenSmile, literature
Literature
For My Mentality's Sake
Someone let me out
I think I'm going crazy
I can't take this anymore
The walls are closing in on me
Trapped inside my own head
My mind has already snapped
I'm fading from reality
Living in forgotten memories
Forgetting who I'm supposed to be
Lost in a world of fantasies