TELL ME WHEN YOU ARE READY

Tell me when it's too much, when your world stops and you're tired of playing tough.

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Let me know when you're ready to peel it off.

That skin that you built, your muscles tight from the stilts trying to rise above the pain that won't go away.

Let me know when you've had enough.

I won't judge.

I've seen the pool in your eyes before you blinked them away.

I hear the muffled sobs in the night. I know you pretend.

I know that you're scared. I know that the sarcasm is your reality and that smile is a liability, so...

Whenever you're ready.

When you can trust that I won't give up.