I cried but I heard myself laugh.
I sobbed but I heard myself chuckle.
Everyone tells me that I look happy, but am I?
What they don't know is that I always wait for night to come,
For Darkness to fill up the town
And for Silence to hang on the air.
Because at night, everyone's asleep.
And when everyone's asleep, I can finally be my true self.
Closing my bedroom door silently, I crawl into bed and pull the soft blanket over my head.
Tears running down my cheeks till my eyeballs are red, sobbing till my lungs give out, I cry through the night.
Only the stars and the streetlights know what I do every night,
Only the moon and the night sky knows that I cry every night,
Hoping to wake up and find myself in another life.
At least at night I can be myself,
Doing what I always want to be doing.
I close my eyes tight, and try to sleep for the sake of tomorrow.
And when I do, I have a dream. A girl is drowning.
Drowning in the middle of a endless sea of tears.
For a moment I wonder, what is she doing in the middle of nowhere?
And then I finally realize that the girl is me.
As I drown, I gasp for air.
I scream for help, knowing none will come.
And I finally give up, realizing it's no use to fight.
I feel the water filling my lungs, darkness covering my eyes as I close them tight.
I wake up in bed, sunlight coming into my room through the gap between the curtains.
I dress up for school, and as I pass the mirror, I smile.
My mom looks at my face and ask me if I cried, and I say,
Yeah.... Don't worry, though. I just read a sad story last night, that's all.
My mom asks me what the title of the book was, and I lie,
Uh... I don't remember. There was a girl and she was drowning. And nobody came to help.
do know the title of
the story, I don't bother talking about it any more.
Sea Made Of Tears
Submitted: February 09, 2021
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