Life Poem by A M

The love they gave me—it hurts.
So I think I learned love that way.

I do things I regret.
I forgive things I cannot forget.

Sometimes I feel like a hero,
and then I feel foolish for doing that to myself.

I always doubt.
I always overthink.
I always feel sad, angry, and alone.

You fake happiness.
Fake it until you make it, they say—
but you will just fake it,
and make yourself believe you made it.

I still don't know how to live—
I only know how to survive.
The battle isn't with life,
or with people—
it's with yourself.

Give yourself power.
I don't control my life,
nor the way I feel.

It's my life—
but how can I claim something
I don't have power over?

Chaos is a sea—
you cannot make a desert out of a sea.
You just learn how to swim.

You are your beginning,
your life,
your ending.

Please—
live fully.
Curiosity
is too strong not to follow.