I write because I can't openly cry.

I make poems because
I can't afford to have breakdowns.

Time is money and I am broke.
Damn, I wish that was just a joke.

I am here because
I don't have the courage
to tell someone that the one,
they have high expectations on;
Is currently contemplating to just end it all.

I can't show them weakness.
I won't be able to handle
the consequence if I did.

For, in the place where the weak
is only a...