I originally posted this in May, for Mental Health Awareness Month. Today is Mental Health Awareness Day. 

“Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It’s not. It’s anguish.”

— Jonathan Kellerman, mystery writer and clinical psychologist. 

Worthlessness

You’re better off without me
How can you not see
I’m a weight dragging you down
You know everyone loves you
I’m just holding you back
Stifling your potential
You could do so much more
Have so much more
Without me
Making you settle
For less than you deserve
Promising mediocrity
Delivering failure
Managing existence
Barely
Poorly
Awfully…

I’m sorry
You really need to go

Be everything I am not.