E-BOOK Angela Richardson - Pieces of Lies

I lie in bed at night, surrounded by darkness that haunts me. It crawls underneath the covers and gets in my head. 

The darkness laughs at me, it makes me remember, it reminds me who I really am. 

And all I want to do is hide, 

and be someone different, 

someone normal, 

someone without fear. 

So I find solace in music that moves me; that fills me with words that speak to my soul, and gives me hope that there are others as troubled in this world, who might know my kind of pain.

With earphones plugged in, my eyes closed tightly, I curl up on my sheets. I listen to A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars  and I think about how I am the person in that song, walking the world in a beautiful lie. I can survive when I’m not drowning in the ugly reality of my own truth.

I feel tears streak down my face because I know that with any kind of lie, it’s only a matter of time before all the pretty walls come crashing down.