I'm not okay!

I'm not okay!

I want to scream from the rooftops

I don't care if anyone would listen

I just needed to say it

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I'm not okay!

I try to let out

But from my mouth comes nothing

Where has my voice gone?

~

Everyday people ask how I am

I plaster the same smile I practiced

All over my face

"I'm okay" I say

But I'm not okay

~

Society says I have to be okay

My needs are "met"

So why should I complain?

Yes I've got food and shelter

But as for my mind I'm not okay

~

Twisting and tumbling through flights of thoughts

But all of them in the end

End the same way

I'm not okay

~

I'm not okay!

I want to scream from the rooftops

And I just want someone to say

"That's okay."

This poem was born from a conversation with fellow vocalite Melissa Ingoldsby. So I want to thank her immensely for that. I'll leave a link to her profile below so you can check out some of her amazing writing. I hope you all enjoyed it and take it as your cue to say you're not okay if you need to. If you did enjoy it then please like, subscribe, and feel free to leave a tip. Till next time.