All around me

All around me are hands
Grabbing hands
Taking what I have to offer
Taking more.
All.

All around me are voices
Nagging voices
Making me believe untruths
Making me believe
Everything

All around me are souls
Lost souls
Trying to find their way home
Trying to find
Happiness

All around me are liars
Fucking liars
Burning with their words
Burning the city
Down.

All around me are versions of myself
Versions of who I could be
Too self-conscious to be who I am
Too self-conscious
To live

All around me are reasons to stay alive
Reasons to exist
Making me resist those crippling thoughts
Making me persist.
Stay.

All around me…
… But I should find everything inside my self.

Unquiet Minds – amazon.com