Trapped In The Margins

To be in a state of mind where you don’t want to die but you don’t want to live

To traverse the line between life and death.

Breathe in hate and exhale frustration.

To be unsure of the future, afraid of the present, and haunted by the past.

I don’t envy people in this state but stand alongside them in solidarity.

I stand with them because I am them.

Looking for any way to save themselves

Looking for someone else to save them

because it’s impossible

To imagine yourself as the strong one

Laughing and smiling while truly meaning it.

That you are not a burden or failure.

Something has got to give.