The Tide

When you pause life
To find another way
To be what others said
No, that's not how
you were made
Don't go, just stay
When all else fails
And words feel like
Itching skin and
Painful ingrown nails
When all you have left is
a dream and a nightmare
And everyone else
doesn't really care
When all you get is
yet another angry stare
When there are no more
Pictures and stories to share
That's when you rise
Even if everyone else
Say is unsafe, and unwise