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What you hide behind a smile

No one really knows what your pain is behind your smile because you play it off so good to everyone your happy your doing good but no one sees you when your alone breaking down because your tired of pretending your ok no one sees or ask how are you really doing behind closed doors your afraid that if you try to open up you’d become a burden or your over reacting or they really don’t seem to care so you feel it’s best to just keep it in but there’s but so much you can hold in until you give up and then let it all out now you “need help “ but when you tried asking it was like asking a brick wall to move . So tired of hiding and unable to express my feelings it shouldn’t be a problem or even lead to an argument when all your asking is for someone to listen to you and be there when you need a shoulder to cry on because if it were them you’d be the first to be there with no hesitation so tell me am I wrong for trying to to explain myself to you that’s all I need especially if your my so called partner #feelings #GirlTalk #Lemon8Diary

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