what about you?

How are you

You asked me

And I replied

I'm okay

But here's the truth

That you cannot know

I feel like I'm drowning

My lungs screaming for air

I feel like a thousand needles

Are pricking me from inside and out

I feel like I'm at a dead end

With nowhere else to go

I feel like I'm done

Pretending life should go on

But of course I will never tell you

Any of these truths

When you ask me how I am

I will always pretend I'm okay