Open When You Can’t Get Out of Bed

“I feel as though I am writhing in a pit of despair. I look around- everything is an illusion. The walls are closing in around me, yet they never wholly swallow me. They stay close enough to torture me, but far enough to keep me alive. I’m alive, but I’m not living. I’m barely breathing, slipping in and out of consciousness. Most of the time I can’t tell the difference between ‘real life’ and the twisted delusions from my subconscious. I seem to be living in hell.”

This is yet another poem I wrote in the midst of my darkest days. A lot of days, depression and the darkness of my mind consumed me to the point I couldn’t leave my bed. And you know what I learned? Sometimes, that’s actually okay. You don’t have to leave your bed. What is important is that this isn’t permanent, but I can tell you it is not. You’re welcome to stay in bed, you just can’t stay there the rest of your life. For the days you do choose to stay in bed, don’t let the darkness consume you the whole time. It is important to feel the dark and ugly, but add a little bit of color to your day with a coloring book- of which you can work on from the comfort of your best blankets and pillows.

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