They say it's a symptom of some disease.

They say it's a call for attention.

Self-centered and blind.

All of them.

I just need to make it real. I just need to feel in the flesh what tortures my soul. I just need to see the blood pouring from my veins.

It makes all real.

It's just so I know I still am, that I have not faded to the black whole within.

I don't need their attention.

I don't want them to see me.

Judge me.

I just need to feel the blade cutting through the layers of deceitful matter keeping my soul prisoner.

Let me be, let me be…