Have you ever noticed

the bags under her eyes

Or the anger issues

that she has?

Her hollow cheeks

and cracked lips

still forced into a smile.

Struggling to show everyone

That she's a fighter

that she will be alright.

No one bothered

to hold her close, to tell her

that it's okay not to

be fine.

She she breathed through her life

as if it were a battlefield

and wished that one day she would live,

and not just survive.