I Know

I know you're tired and it is a dark place in your life.

I know you're tired about everything, tired about your job, Tired about the draining and abusive relationship. I know you're even tired of yourself.

I know you're tired of moving, living, and watching the sunrise.

I know you told your friend life is worthless and you are holding on to the last rope.

I have heard you cry to sleep. Tears have been a daily dosage. You cry at everything.

Your eyes are always bloody red because of the tears, but you always say they are so because of the online work that keeps you awake. But the only online work you do is checking on 1,000 ways to commit suicide.

I have seen you glam yourself and are the narrator of the exciting real and fictional stories yet your eyes are dry and empty.

I have seen you laugh at your loudest to cover up the sadness and the emptiness.

And I know you've had a million questions with no answers.

I know there are days you've used sleeping pills to get an hour nap.

I know you've waited on the door to welcome your partner but it has been too long and he has not turned up. And well he is not going to turn up.

I know how you lock the door and get dead silent when the landlord comes to ask about your rent.

I know the many pregnancy tests you have taken only for your hope to be crushed with negative results and the inlaws attack you with insults on how you have just decided to finish their son's generation. They have even accused you of abortion when you were young yet their son is the one with the issue.

I know the doctors have been given you a few months to live if you don't have your chemotherapy.

And I know you were given a redundancy letter with immediate effect and you have to face your wife and children and tell them to tighten their belts.

I know it is all draining because life happens. We may be going through life's storms just in different boats.

But while I know all this, I know something else.

I know you're stronger than you give yourself credit for.

I know you have a healing smile that you need to use, smile at yourself.

I know life has different chapters and your new chapter will be written soon.

I know that this other side of the tunnel is bright and you can reach too. You just need to believe.

I know that you are a sweet soul, you just need to understand that life's experience and mistakes don't define you. You made the choices you made because they were the best at that time.

I know if you look at yourself in the mirror and see beyond the physical. You'll see deeper, a strong person with goals and visions that need to be fulfilled. That you're a game-changer, a person of strength.

I know if only you were a little bit kinder to you, you'll speak life, excellence, growth, purpose into your life. I know you'll start today.

I know you'll embrace life's lesson.

I know you'll rise.

I know you'll shine bright like a diamond

I know you'll hold on to tell your story of resilience, strength, and courage.

I know......