I don’t want you to feel better at the drop of a dime

I don’t want you to forget what it is that made you feel this way

I don’t even want you to force a fake smile just to tell yourself everything is ok

Im sorry but I don’t want you to be happy right now

I want you to feel everything you’re supposed to feel

I want you to go through all the emotions your soul is telling you it needs to go through

Be broken till its time for you to heal, there’s no shame in having to feel,

there’s no shame in being sad

I don’t want to live in a society where you cant process sadness anymore,

where you’re just expected to skip it

As if you’re supposed to be happy all the time

What kind of logic is that to live with?

They love to say get over it, as if your sadness is a river with a bridge

As if sadness was ever that convenient

And if sadness really was a body of water and for you it was always just a river

…

your life is really, really good

But some of us never get a river, we get oceans, there’s no crossing that,

the only options we have is to deal with it

Ignoring your sadness is not healthy

Happiness needs pain as its substance or else its empty

So I refuse to cheer you up, but I will sit with you till the sky clears up

We’ll lay in the grass and kiss the rain till it gets tired of falling down

And I get that you don’t want to feel like this anymore

But if you keep running away from yourself,

what exactly do you think will be there when you come back

Will the reason for your sadness magically disappear because you ignored it, will you really feel better knowing you didn’t deal with it

Showing the world a fake smile to hide the pain is one thing

But lying to yourself that you don’t feel sad, is sadness in itself

So once again Im sorry, but Im not going to cheer you up

I need you to deal with this, deal with it in your own way but deal with it, its ok to feel sad, you don’t need cheering up, give it time