The World Is Too Pretty
I need your help
Okay so, my heart is helpless
And I am hopeless
How do I fix this?
Generic but listen
I get these ridiculous crushes on people
They don't run deep but I get weird when we talk and suddenly feel the need to impress them or love to listen to them
And when we touch I freeze but I know that it won't last because I am hopeless
I'm actually no one's type
I swear, not even my own
I look into a mirror and my face contorts into a We-can-be-friends pity look
You know the one, the one that people give to the kid that is super weird and has no friends and wants to disappear but finds solace in you and wishes for a conversation but knows that you'll hate them because they aren't worth much but for some reason they chose today to become confident and talk to you but are really regretting it inside because you've given them the face
So it really doesn't help the fact that I get random squishes and crushes and on the extremely rare occasion actually fall in love and then have to realize that I'll be met with that face
So I really need your help
Because right now I'm talking to a mirror
Because I don't think my bruised heart can take the face from you
Please can you help me?
I am helpless and my heart is hopeless
My heart palpitates at every pretty girl
It really gets going when I see that good looking guy and I wonder where exactly my sexuality lies when my helpless body is strewn in a bed of insecurities
I'm not worth the time it takes for them to breathe let alone take a glance at me
The kid who wants the world to hear but also wants to disappear in hopes of the peace, who walks in a slouch and covers up anything undesirable with baggy shirts and hoods and words that they don't really mean or know because everything is for show in a world where people hate themselves and speak to others about building themselves up and it's always #bodypositivity and you want them to shut the fuck up because what could they know about the dysphoria that haunts your soul and tears at you while they go on living in the motto of “being the best you”
My bruised heart can't take that
Because they are all so pretty and I can't even love a fragment of a reflection that the mirror has cut for me but it jumps for a crush that doesn't know I exist because I'm scared of that dumb pretty face that defines and creates all the reasons and problems for why I need your help because my heart is helpless and I am hopeless
So please, can someone help me
I don’t know what I’m doing here
I have tried avoiding people and mirrors and I tried to use cover ups but we all know they don’t really work because why would they when the world strives and thrives on how much we hate ourselves and detest letting others know but want to get better but don’t know how so we revert to these false securities and just repeat this awful cycle and makes things worse and worse and eventually when you’re at your lowest of lows and you see yourself and it’s in the reflection the eyes of the person that makes your useless bruised heart stop you realize that nothing can get better and you scream at them for it and then you feel bad and that on top of all that bullshit inside of you makes you squirm and wriggle with guilt and terror and suddenly the voices get louder and you want to disappear and this time for real but you don’t want to die
Because of everything you’re scared of and of everything you can’t do right you’re scared of death the most and the last times didn’t work quite right so here you are and here I am surrounded by broken glass and holding bruised and broken hearts in shredded baggy hoodies because we can’t handle ourselves and the world is too pretty











