we all have old scars or
raw trauma, healing
it's hard to see another's wounds when you're still actively bleeding from your own
this isn't selfishness
this isn't neglect
this is survival
everyone is bleeding
we're all mind reading or
misreading or
inventing inner lives for
those inaccessible
searching for that last puzzle piece
without knowing the whole picture or
amount of pieces still missing
we all wonder if we're doing this right
we're same enough
that the struggle is universal
but foreign enough that we
still struggle
yeah,
I might be over generalizing here but
I don't think so