Three Drafts

Acrostic

You’ve gotten better at masquerading your true feelings.

Only you know how it feels.

Under pressure to be perfect, but you know it’s impossible.

Life gets harder.

Life seems worthless now.

But it’s not just you.

Everyone knows that deep, sad feeling.

Over the years,

Killing yourself seems to be the only way to be happy and it’s not!

All you need to keep reminding yourself is,

You’ll Be Okay.

 Haiku

The sun has come out,

Temperature is rising,

Summer is coming!

Free-verse

Once I met this man,

With sparkling eyes that reminded me

Of the summer sunset reflecting off a lake.

This man also had a smile that reminded me

Of what the word ‘happiness’ meant.

Too bad that smile started to fade,

And so did my memory of happiness.

And as soon as his eyes cut me off,

My heartbeat cut off. But I knew I was

Forever falling into the lake.