Do You Feel Like You’re Crazy?

Do you feel like you’re crazy?

Like the thoughts just won’t settle,

Spinning in circles,

A whirlpool in your head,

And no one sees it,

No one hears it.

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You try to speak,

But the words are trapped,

Caught in the space between

What you want to say,

And what comes out—

A mess of fragments,

Unfinished thoughts,

And you feel yourself disappearing.

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Like your mind’s a locked door,

And you’re the only one inside,

Trying to make sense of the scribbles,

The fragments, the pieces,

But the puzzle’s all wrong.

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And maybe you wonder—

Is it me?

Am I just broken in ways

That no one cares to see?

Maybe,

Maybe I am just crazy.

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But no one asks,

No one listens,

So you drown in silence,

In thoughts that don’t belong,

In moments that slip through your fingers,

In a fog so thick you can’t find the light.

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You just want to scream,

But the noise is already too loud,

In your head, in your chest,

In the spaces where there’s no release.

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Do you feel like you’re crazy?

Because maybe that’s the only way

To make sense of what you can’t explain—

The storm inside,

The quiet on the outside,

And the feeling that you are somehow lost in the middle.