picking the scab
i’m slipping, i can feel it. im slipping once again, into that dark place where the way out seems so bright, but so far away…where im too weak to get up and walk towards it. walk out.
im sitting on my bed, with 2 photo albums out, my old blogs (which i printed), a drawing my friend made me when we were 15, and my cat. my very pregnant cat, chillin on my stuff.
the pounding music coming from above me is driving me crazy, i cant take it any more. its reminding me of the pounding of my heart- when all i want is for it to be still.
no, thats not true. not entirely.
im staring into kory’s eyes. kory, my ex. its in our prom pictures that i have out. i looked so happy, and anyone who looks at it would think so. i wasnt happy- not even close, reminding me of how well i can hide my emotions if i so choose. reminding me of how good of an actor i am. reminding me that i was surrounded with people who didnt pay enough attention to notice something was wrong. something was terribly wrong- like it is now. i was so young then- and i dont mean by age. i mean by maturity- my experience. and i wish i was still young.
again, what the fuck is wrong with me?
i have an amazing man in my life, so why should i feel this way? this always seems to happen like this- this depression seems to come out of no where, springing on me from the dark, making me think of everything that makes me cry.
i want a smoke, i want one so bad. but why? i hate smoking. well, not entirely. i like the way it takes the edge off, the way i can actually think when the smoke is seeping its way to my lungs. filling me with smoke, but yet letting me have such a clear insight. oh, the contradiction.
i think i’ve said this once before, but i’ll say it again: everytime i get a new guy in my life, this seems to happen. it starts off awesome, and i am so happy. and then something happens in the course of 3 months, that makes me upset. that triggers that deep depression, that i hide way beneath the surface. that opens up all those old wounds, that makes me fall apart. not completely, but enough to be lost.
and then they leave. maybe its because they can’t handle me, maybe its because they dont want to- and i dont blame them.
and with E, it has happened again. but before it happened, it was different with me and him. so lets see if it’ll stay different. lets see if he actually does stay and help me through this like everyone else promised and never did. like he promised.
if i lose him, i dont know what i’ll do…
i guess its up to me to keep myself happy.
but i cant not let him know…
-amber