Sometimes the Pain We Feel Is Good

it’s on nights when the ground lights up the sky a reddish color and (sometimes) you catch yourself looking out at the horizon through your window half as much as you seem to look yourself in the mirror because you need to see your distorted image and it’s during times when you're up late staring at (the) ceiling as you connect the dots of the new flaws in the paint and you make lists in your head so you can keep your mind occupied and today society perceives people like you as outcasts and they perceive people like us as the ones who can’t bring themselves away from their (pain) long enough to notice what we could be doing to make ourselves better but sometimes being able to know that we’re alive and that we’re still breathing in and out and knowing that what (we feel) keeps us on our feet because it shows us what being on the other side (is) like and our despair and broken pieces that cut others bring us to keep trying because for all the bad times we’ve spent in the dark by ourselves, it makes us see that we still have a life in front of us and that someday we’ll be okay with how we started off but when he have families and a (good) thing going we’ll see how much it was worth it to feel separated from ourselves for so long