
It feels like you’re out of breath.
it feels like you’re mad.
Sometimes it feels like you’re a monster.
It makes you forget who you are,
what you are, where you are.
It makes you forget how to smile,
how to cry, how to love.
It makes you forget, that
you’re alive.
It makes your nights sleepless,
life hopeless,
yourself worthless.
It makes your days horrible,
yourself miserable,
your world terrible.
But,
it makes you stronger,
lonelier, stranger,
as you win.

Haifa Saif is a 15-year-old from India. Haifa loves to read and to write essays, poems, and quotes.
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