Inner Demons

Sometimes we personify mental illness and label it as our “Inner demons.”

So many people live with dark self-loathing. It’s so much more common than people admit.

It starts off as a whisper and rolls into a scream so piercing it’s hard to hear anything else.

Our inner enemy preventing the quiet moments and the opposite of reason.

And we try to hide it, and some take pills to fight it.

Society tells us not to show it because it’s shameful to show weaknesses.

They will call you crazy…They say, they will judge you and dismiss your wisdom.

It is easier to call someone crazy than to call it what it really is, mental illness.

We need to stop this stigma.

The real sickness is not admitting that it is a sickness.

And somehow, it’s more socially acceptable for females to own their pain.

Boys and men are told to “man up” and stop “crying like a girl.”

Meanwhile, what’s the common denominator of mass shootings???

BOYS who repress their anger and pain.

And males take their lives more often.

We need to tell them, Look for the helpers.

I’ve lost too many friends to this disease & I won’t ever be free.

I don’t judge them or say that they gave up.

I’m sure they didn’t see another way out.

But we always have a choice.

We can let our inner demons out and let our angels fly.

We got to talk about it, and we cannot wait.

There will never be a better time if there is no tomorrow.

Let there be a tomorrow, and let’s start now!