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Happiness Is Overrated

And so is this poem

By CatherinePublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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I said happiness is overrated

It doesn’t flow with my vibe

The poetry

The dark clothes

Happiness just wouldn’t go

So, I wrote down depressing shit

That sounds the same as always

The darkness

The broken girl

Crushed by the weight of the world

The happy vibe didn’t come naturally

It sounded cheesy and alien

The sunshine

The pretty flowers

Not exactly emanating power

I used the darkness to mask my pain

It was all I believed I deserved

This torture

This self-hatred

I was haunted by my own dead

Everything I wrote sounded the same

I couldn’t get this feeling out of my head

This longing

This need

For everyone to feel sorry for me

Like if I actually wrote happily

No one would ever read it

The joy

The smiles

They don’t catch the eyes

So, I write the depressing shit

Because it's what I know

That darkness

That pain

I write it cause it makes me feel okay

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About the Creator

Catherine

I am a 20-year-old college student who deals with depression and anxiety and uses writing and poetry to understand it better. This is my raw feelings put into words, and this is me.

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