I’m tired.841Please respect copyright.PENANAgePJwtXjT7
If I’m honest, the days keep dragging by841Please respect copyright.PENANAYr9aTiuYme
and my feet are sliding across the floor instead841Please respect copyright.PENANATTp880pimO
of lifting with each step because I can’t find the energy841Please respect copyright.PENANAgYS3CqawsV
to pick them up and set them back down.841Please respect copyright.PENANAjSaiLF5Te1
Some people turn and ask me to stop scuffing841Please respect copyright.PENANAfXmIDzocIW
my feet on the floor, please lift them up and walk841Please respect copyright.PENANAQTIYpAM8pd
like a normal person, thank you.841Please respect copyright.PENANAP1fcsS6nxw
I try.841Please respect copyright.PENANAV6TQ6jUemp
I try everyday to lift myself up and keep walking841Please respect copyright.PENANAxiMhVeOy6d
but like my feet, I am scuffing across the ground841Please respect copyright.PENANAwdwo0DYbU6
just barely making it from one place to another841Please respect copyright.PENANAF4geC9sH0q
without damage.
I’m tired.841Please respect copyright.PENANA9lZeKfMCfA
Just this Wednesday I was driving home841Please respect copyright.PENANACXxxdysiil
on the highway, 480 West from Brookpark Road841Please respect copyright.PENANAxDzbfIbZQp
where the RTA takes me to Cleveland for classes, and841Please respect copyright.PENANAwB0NDkUYGb
during the drive, I couldn’t focus on the road before me841Please respect copyright.PENANA9lQ6ofGo04
because the news that Trump had won left me shaken841Please respect copyright.PENANA4ViPhAL1Wf
for those I’m not sure how to help841Please respect copyright.PENANAeFRHtUc7rF
when I’ve been given a privilege I didn’t ask for.841Please respect copyright.PENANA9dzLtSeI8e
And while I was driving down the highway841Please respect copyright.PENANANSb5Ik390V
I contemplated the notion of jerking the wheel841Please respect copyright.PENANAWIZrBSgiDE
to the left and letting my car hit the divide between the841Please respect copyright.PENANAV4pAlC7cgk
highway East and the highway West; allow myself to841Please respect copyright.PENANA2sWoShok9G
collide with the wall, break through and destroy841Please respect copyright.PENANAz6mMapoO8v
the other side.841Please respect copyright.PENANAyXhLDv2hMm
Then, I contemplated jerking the wheel to the right841Please respect copyright.PENANAL4il58fb68
into the ditch along the grass so I wouldn’t841Please respect copyright.PENANAiRjV4dqI0U
harm anyone else in the process. But I841Please respect copyright.PENANAenyInprgYK
didn’t do either, even though I841Please respect copyright.PENANAyKkh3c7oOj
got so scared for a minute841Please respect copyright.PENANAE7HShY1kih
that I would.
I’m tired.841Please respect copyright.PENANAPgyjHm6FI4
Last year on August 22nd, my birthday, I had a similar841Please respect copyright.PENANA91vBJv6VyA
reaction to suicidal thoughts. I had a rough841Please respect copyright.PENANAi8V4pNLFNs
birthday; I worked, I was lonely, I felt841Please respect copyright.PENANA8kiIXcipzt
pathetic, worthless, uncared for and forgotten841Please respect copyright.PENANAaq2pdSeDz5
so I took the sharpest and largest kitchen knife841Please respect copyright.PENANAihCG9oVqiQ
and I pressed the tip of it to my chest, above my heart841Please respect copyright.PENANAdAWWzqh9JD
and sobbed until I couldn’t sob anymore.841Please respect copyright.PENANAs5UE4SM6v1
I did not press the sharp edge deep enough to841Please respect copyright.PENANAdRzyKYsotX
draw blood, but it was the first time841Please respect copyright.PENANA4WoHbeNSLf
I had allowed myself to841Please respect copyright.PENANAlhD36nFrKS
get so close to the temptation.
I’m tired.841Please respect copyright.PENANAy7ABDF71hC
I say that I want to die a lot, even though I never841Please respect copyright.PENANAL0DIWVwp5H
actually reach out and go through with it841Please respect copyright.PENANAquOGVhvdbQ
I think because I’m afraid of not existing841Please respect copyright.PENANAp1gz80kBoj
just as I’m afraid of existing. And lately I841Please respect copyright.PENANAbOEo70erYf
have people who reach out to me when I’m not sure841Please respect copyright.PENANAtBCKOoaoFU
how to reach out to them, and it’s sweet to have people841Please respect copyright.PENANAuBbk2NioNs
support me, but I go right back to wanting to isolate myself841Please respect copyright.PENANAH4CyP22PRk
and give up. I have thought about dying every day841Please respect copyright.PENANAJUDFpqBa1Y
for the last few weeks and I wish I could just841Please respect copyright.PENANAzNNR3NBgSZ
go through with it.
I’m tired.841Please respect copyright.PENANAnzdkfknkGP
I’m so tired of being forgotten, of arguing841Please respect copyright.PENANAiBiSA85zJe
for people to care about me when they should841Please respect copyright.PENANAgdg2QADYJV
care about me on their own. I often think that841Please respect copyright.PENANAibLrDhrZhG
I should just stop putting in such an effort for those that841Please respect copyright.PENANAYJvREDAN6F
do not consider me, but I can’t seem to stop caring.841Please respect copyright.PENANAYxvsLd5SOT
She often hurts me more than she improves my life841Please respect copyright.PENANA34wfQrO5u7
but I’m too afraid to say anything because841Please respect copyright.PENANAprnJgeu4uY
I need her. I need her to exist841Please respect copyright.PENANARJudTDHmt9
in my existence, and I need her to841Please respect copyright.PENANABqQYwlhkMX
be by my side.841Please respect copyright.PENANA2J8rhQwJRK
But I’m tired.
I’m tired841Please respect copyright.PENANAV1vKRoPqoB
of being tired841Please respect copyright.PENANAxCAcmrwyIC
in this tiring life.


