Submissions by Lachrimae

Be happy!
Paint a smile on your face
We don’t want to see your frown
Not for your sake, no
It’s just too much work to deal with your anger
Too much trouble for us when you are sad
Yet too difficult for us to help you fix the problem
So just be happy!
We are your friends
We want you to be happy, of course
You just aren't trying hard enough
Bury the tears
Hide the emotion
Smile, just like us
If you smile of course your problems will be solved
Or at least ours will be
Pretend to be okay and the problems will go away
Hide the...

Crying in the dark
Away from stares and prying eyes
Clutching at my knife
Making scars I try so hard to hide
But now they aren't enough
To save me from this wretched life
The knife shines under the moon
The silver blade as cold as ice
I hold it at my throat
And wonder if it's justified
They all say I'm sick
But compared to them I am fine
It's the world that is so sick
And I want to leave it behind
Is it so disturbing
For me to want to die
Is it really wrong
When all of my life is a lie
Every friend I thought I had...

I see a world in darkness turning
Clouded skies of poison smoke
In the cities rotting, burning
A thousand bodies strewn in the streets
The gravediggers long gone
The people stumbling blindly past
Unseeing eyes gazing emptily at the light
The light of glowing pixels on a screen
Small computers clutched in every deathly hand
Computer chips lodged in every head
Constant streams of empty information
Pointless, meaningless and never ending
On the horizon the factories burn chemicals
Clouds of toxic smoke reaching into the sky
Tendrils of...