Do you ever just feel sad?

The kind of sad that gives you a headache and makes you want to cry.

The kind of sad that makes you just want to sleep and drift away to some sort of Dreamland or Wonderland or Neverland or anywhere but here.

The kind of sad that makes your chest constrict and implode, and your heart sink down to your feet.

The kind of sad that makes it almost impossible to smile, but you're too afraid of what would happen if you didn't fake that grin.

The kind of sad that you don't talk about to anyone, even though you'll write about it a lot.

The kind of sad you don't tell your parents, because it might hurt them or worse: they might brush it off as a phase or something to do with you not living right.

The kind of sad that everyone seems to have a solution to, but they don't really have any answers for.

The kind of sad that creeps into your soul at night and doesn't go away until the daytime--and you feel like somehow you're not really that sad, because if you were then you'd always be depressed, right? Or maybe you are always sad, but when you're actively out there living life and with people you just don't notice it as much.

The kind of sad that seems to own you and control you.

The kind of sad that makes you wonder and question and doubt.

Do you ever just feel sad?

Yeah, me too.