Pāhonoa te oro

How do you smile…[angry] <prosody rate="slow">text</prosody> when nothing inside you feels okay?”[angry] <prosody rate="slow">text</prosody> I’ve tried… so many times.[angry] To fit in…[angry] To belong…[angry] To be like everyone else.[angry] I laughed when they laughed…[whisper] I stayed quiet when I was hurting…[angry] I pretended I was fine… even when I wasn’t.[angry] But no matter what I did…[angry] it never felt real.[angry] Because the truth is…[angry] the more I tried to fit