Take time for yourself, they said Go for a walk, they said It’s safe, they said If only they knew the horrors awaiting me If only they knew the amount of shivering I would endure in deepest part of the forest If only they knew how it hurt to be aggressively squeezed by the throat If only they knew how it felt to attempt to breathe in oxygen If only they knew it would be my last night Maybe, just maybe They would’ve told me otherwise