....You're okay

I hear you can't get out of bed
I hear you think they're true
Those voices in your head
That say that you're no good

I hear you've not washed in days
I hear you see no use
And that a better way
It isn't meant for you

I want you to know I'm thinking of
The times you made us laugh
I need you to know I'm scared that
I won't get another chance
To see you try not to smile
At the reaction to you and your wild 
Point of view, that hits the truth
On the head, like a hammer through a peg.. 

I sense.. 

You make them see.. 

You make them feel.. 

You make them cry.. 

You make them real.. 

And they love you even though they don't know if you will stay or you will go, there's only one thing that I know, and that's there's better things.. 

Waiting in the wings.. 

If you'd just put down your pain
Long enough to even contemplate 
Considering letting me explain.. 
That empathy is not sympathy 
I've been where you are
And I'd go there again

On the other side of confusion 
There lives a place
Of make or break
It's magic and it's scary
And honestly it's up to you to take
But it starts with one foot forward
And peeling back that fucking duvet
Because life is for the living
And victory is eternally reserved
For the brave.. 

Please listen to me when I say this, because I speak it with no falsehood or to make light of the unbearable relentless pressure of your strain.. 

....You're okay.