Bottle it up.

Bottle it up

 

“Hey, you don’t mind if I sit here do you?”

 

Not at all, let me wipe this counter for you my good sir, what will you be having tonight?

 

“Just get me something off my mind.”

 

Are you depressed son?

You sound depressed.

 

“I am I suppose, today sucked.”

 

Well my boy, there is a simple trick to forget that and to be happy.

 

“What’s the trick”

 

Bottle it up

 

“What the Hell does that mean?”

 

Just bottle it up now, so you don’t bother your friends and family

Just bottle it up so you don’t lose your friends

Just. Bottle. It. Up.

 

“Alright, so do I just close my eyes or something like that?”

 

Yes.


“...”

 

Good, you are keeping the feeling away from the people who care about you

 

“I am a failure”

 

No no no, you’re showing your feeling.

You need to stop it

 

“No matter what I make, I won’t be appreciated, I won’t win the gold medal I will just get a blue ribbon, I’ll amount to nothing, I’ll just be in the background, like a tree in a high school play ”

 

You’re showing your insecurities, you need to stop it.

 

“Why? I will just die alone anyways”

 

You’re being negative again, no one likes an Eeyore.

 

“But it’s true.”

 

I know it’s true, but just bottle it up and no one has to see how pathetic you are.  

Just bottle it up so no one can see how much pain you are really in,

Because it’s not like you have anyone in the world that cares about you.

 

“I know people care about me, I just don’t want to bother them”

 

So just bottle it up.

 

“It’s not working, are you sure this works?”

 

 

I can’t answer that…

 

This poem is about: 
Me

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