There’s this hunger inside me

It begs me to release

It won’t leave me with peace

And with every breath I breathe

I lose one more little piece

There’s this weight on my heart

That makes everything seem hard

Is the world really this harsh?

Or am I just weak?

Tears keep falling doing my face

And everyone is saying it’s just a phase

But they’re not the ones trapped in this cage

They’re not the ones feeling this rage

They can’t tell me survival is guaranteed

Not when all I do is bleed

They will never know, what it is that I need

When all it is, is to be freed

But they can’t see the bars that surround my mind

For them, I am safe and sound

My heart is struggling to stay kind

But all it wants, is to escape humankind

From safety, I am deprived

I wish I could go back, to being blind

Wish I could go back to being a child

But I’m stuck waiting for hope on the other side

This won’t last long, surely

Maybe time will heal the pain inside me

But God, time had never passed so slowly.