Nicole Carman

not everyone survives their battle, and i am sad when i think of everyone’s that lost; i hope they get their comfort they couldn’t find on earth i hope they know they’re loved even when they couldn’t feel it— i face the storms, and brave the days even those i…...

i am a warrior at the end of the day every trauma and every bully is less than i am because i saved myself time and time again from the ugly things in my mind that told myself i should end it all, i saved myself from facing my maker…...

thought of ending it all more than once, the bullying was forceful as a tide, didn’t know how i was going to save myself from splintering into grains of sand; i didn’t know how to stop the anger or the pain or how to see the light when darkness rushed…...

i lost years with my favorite uncle, but they still want a stigma centering around mental health; to brush it beneath the rug as if feelings and lives don’t matter but they always have and will— i will never see him sell his art online or speak to him about…...