Mind Playing Tricks

Art by Tsoku Maela

His bedroom became a grave. His sheets childish as it sounds, hid a shifting corpse. As he ghosted responsibility, believing no-one cared. He tried to sink, further, underneath, to his end.

--If this, is you, take your next breath, get up, look down-see your next step-take it, now look ahead, and ask for help-because you just made the first move to heal yourself.

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