we are human

"We're all walking around with these glossy eyes.

'I'm just tired,' we say. But you know what?

It's bullshit. Yes, we are tired, but it's not all from

lack of sleep. We are tired of waking up

with nothing to look forward to,

tired of going to bed exhausted after doing

a million things we find no enjoyment in doing.

We're tired of the loneliness that presses down on us

even though we're surrounded by dozens of people.

So why can't we just say it?

Humans are afraid to look into each other's eyes & say,

"I am unhappy, I am broken, I am hopeless & falliable."

We've been conditioned to associate pain with

weakness, sadness with coldness, loneliness with unworthiness,

difference with disease, as if these feelings are contagious,

as if ambivalence is something not to be felt but to be feared.

Well, I can say screw all of that.

Screw forced smiles & polite handshakes

& I'm fine, thank yous.

Screw the fear of crying in a public place,

screw the fake chipper voice,

screw the lies we spit out to cover up our problems.

We are humans. We are meant to feel.

To feel everything & to feel it all openly.

We are not metal - we are flesh and bone.

Our boiled blood courses through our cold, clammy hands.

We are intricate & beautiful

& we should never hide our human parts,

because if we do, then what's left to show?"