"Holding On" - How One Night, I Chose Life Over Death

We all wear a mask... a facade to the outside world

It is just so easy... just to hide the pain and smile. 

I've been going through a time... 

a time of pain and troubles.

My demons have taken me over... and now...

I just don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore!

Sadness, pain, and ache...

Just consuming my heart, my mind, my soul.

They're consuming my heart, my mind, my soul... to the point of near destruction!

 

Holding on... to those last few moments, when I nearly ended it all.

 

What was I doing?  What was I doing?

Did I really think that this was the only way?

What had led me to believe... that I had nothing left to live for?

 

And now I know... that when I fall... 

No matter how far, no matter how low, no matter how hard!

That everything, that everything... will be okay.

I know I can, I know I will.

Get better someday!

And just maybe... oh, just maybe...

I will be stronger than I was before!

... Stronger than I was... before...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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