Slipping Away
Laughter swirls throughout the air, yet fills her ears with pain. She starts to feel claustrophobic and needs to escape. She is tired of always smiling and pretending that things are okay. It amazes her how people claim to know her so well...oh, she is a lively, outgoing person! Her life is perfect! Look at her, who wouldn't want that? She is always happy, energetic and full of life...but it is all lies. She is empty and lonely. Happiness is a void that her heart does not know. She longs for love, but it seems to be found nowhere, a constant inquisitive failure. She searches the depths of her soul to understand these feelings of darkness, but loses her way in the winding paths of melancholy. Why...is the question that she ponders. She sighs in defeat and has given up hope. What shall I do now? She eases her body into the warmth of her bath and slips back into her wallows of depression. How easy it be to just end it all now. She slides further and further until the water consumes her whole...she sighs in contentment as the last thoughts fleet through her mind...happiness at last.