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I know this darkness
<p>It's convenient</p><p>For me to stand here and watch you burn.</p><p><br/></p><p>I hope you get to feel the things I'm feeling too.</p><p>I hope you suffer.</p><p>I hope you carry the weight</p><p>of every wound you left behind.</p><p><br/></p><p>I hope the shadows follow you,</p><p>I hope the silence becomes heavy,</p><p>I hope you finally understand</p><p>what it feels like to fight a war</p><p>inside a place no one else can enter.</p><p><br/></p><p>It's convenient</p><p>for me to stand here and watch you drown.</p><p><br/></p><p>Drown in the misery of everything you are.</p><p>Drown as your own thoughts become strangers.</p><p>Drown as you question every memory,</p><p>every sound,</p><p>every face looking back at you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Drown as you begin to notice</p><p>the way people whisper around you,</p><p>the way their eyes change,</p><p>the way they look at you</p><p>like you are no longer yourself.</p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe then,</p><p>you will understand.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe then,</p><p>you will stop calling it weakness.</p><p>Maybe then,</p><p>you will stop telling me</p><p>to simply "snap out of it."</p><p><br/></p><p>Because when the world becomes too loud,</p><p>when your own mind becomes a place</p><p>you are afraid to visit,</p><p>when everyone runs from what they don't understand...</p><p><br/></p><p>You will search for someone</p><p>who doesn't flinch.</p><p><br/></p><p>Someone who doesn't look at you</p><p>like you are a monster.</p><p><br/></p><p>Someone who knows the difference</p><p>between a person and their pain.</p><p><br/></p><p>And you will find me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Standing at the same door</p><p>you once watched me stand behind.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because I forgot what you did.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because your wounds erased mine.</p><p><br/></p><p>But because I know this darkness.</p><p><br/></p><p>I have lived beside it.</p><p>I have learned its language.</p><p>I have survived the nights</p><p>when my own mind felt unfamiliar.</p><p><br/></p><p>And when everyone else walks away,</p><p><br/></p><p>you will finally understand</p><p>why I was the only one</p><p>who could sit beside you in the dark.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I was never the monster</p><p>you were afraid of.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was the person</p><p>who understood the monster</p><p>you were becoming.</p>
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