Everyone Hurts
By: Devin Cade

Today another reality check,
sitting in the morning mist.
Another beginning of what I can’t be. 
Another day strangely unmissed. 

I remember a point, 
a point where I was so tough.
As age captures my minutes.
I am so quick to realize...I am not enough. 

Self sufficiency fades in time, 
and there’s so much in which I won’t take part.
"I don’t want to be rigid."
Yet, I don’t want to learn love, this broken heart.

There’s so many things to be, 
never neglecting anyone who shares these pains.
It’s just that it hurts so bad, 
to be on the other side, of the horse’s reins.

Everytime I think this way of life,
I say to myself, "This isn’t the way it was intended."
Yet, little did I know, everytime I said that,
"It was closer to the hand of difference." I became befriended. 

And for a long time I was bitter.
Posing as happy and so care free.
At the same time afraid,
afraid of what I just written, and say "Nope, not me."

So the next time you look into someone’s eyes, 
just know they are not all they seem.
Everyone hurts...
And believe it or not, that’s what makes them gleam. 


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