so you're
hurting.
perhaps your varicose vessels and veins are tangled like twine, unkempt nest of bats inside your pipes, can't afford a plumber so twisted thoughts and tubes take hostage

perhaps every inch, every itch, every itty bitty scratch or scar of skin hurt like a hot iron searing into my fleshly steak, every contact, near miss, every graze stings, like bent needles coated with filth, digging it's way under skin

perhaps your heart bleeds white, your eyes ooze black, chopped in half by a hyperbole, broken and duct-taped together like a shabby old car

so you're
hurting.

Don't worry
left and right and
up and down and here and there and
east and west and north and south and
everyone's hurting.
Everyone's screaming synchronized, some sort of metronome fueled by stabbing and spite
so sing! share your sorrows and sadness, go make some noise
no one's here to hear, we're all too selfish to care, so sing!
be louder than everything. it'll probably fall on deaf ears any
way we can make it out of this prison?
everyone's hurting, so
Don't worry
you aren't so different