[UNSTOPPABLE FORCE]
[i cant see what you do]
[my regrets obscure my vision]
[if i can understand myself first then
 maybe i can understand you too]

MEMY2C - the-critic

i really
truly hate it here

everywhere i look is a constant reminder of how badly i messed up

most of them unrelated to you
but
it feels like these versions of the jouse are just
tormenting me
digging up regrets

it makes me sick

like really
physically sick

i need to keep asking theo and fiend to take a breather

it gets to a point where i wonder

is it worth it to keep going if im going to keep being like this

i almost fainted one time
when we were heading through that gray and dark brown variant
the one with the brittle keys

something about the messages on them
they werent for me
i was not welcome here

i dont know if its doing this on purpose or not
i dont know what i did to deserve this

well
no
i know i deserve this
but

is there a way for me to forgive myself for all ive done
to the people i care about
to you

am i a good person █████

i would ask you this myself but
youre not here right now

i would ask theo but
he seems preoccupied with his own things right now

i would ask fiend but
but
where is he

theo says he stays down on that floor with the couch and mirror

maybe its not affecting him as badly as its getting me

i dont know if the jouse is forcing me to go through some
personal developments or have an epiphany or whatever but

metaphorically or not i need to
get through whatevers making me feel this way
maybe then this pain in my chest and the back of my head will stop

i asked theo how he was holding up during one of our breathers

he said to me
i havent been feeling much honestly
just some brain fog every now and then but nothing too bad
but i can see it in his eyes
the way he looks to the right
the way he bites at the chapped skin on his lips
hes lying to me

what is this like for him
i hope to god that it isnt as bad as this

what would this be like for kim
for fiend
or

did you have to go through this too █████

did you have to deal with the feeling of being
shot seventy times in the chest

the feeling of slowly losing yourself as you
delve deeper into your escapism paradise

i hope wherever you are youre doing better than i am right now

and i hope that we can find you
so i can apologize

apologize for every time we fought
apologize for every time i made you feel excluded
apologize for every time i probably made you hate me
apologize for every time i felt like i hated you
apologize for

apologize for being barry
the flawed fucked up barry that doesnt seem to get better
the flawed fucked up barry that cant improve as a person
no matter how hard he tries

no im
im being too hard on myself now
my thoughts are so scattered my minds a mess i

i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror while heading upstairs
i almost didnt recognize myself
i thought i saw who i was before but
i dont know who was in the mirror for a second there but it wasnt me
it wasnt the barry who kept building walls inside his own closet
it wasnt the barry that had to face the horrors of vulernability
to help confronting who he really was it wasnt

i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror while heading upstairs
and i saw a monster holding a shard of opaque purple glass
staring at me
with a lost expression
as if trying to figure out who i was


♪ — broken-mirrors-bring-bad-luck-(or-so-they-say)
original: Oppressive Gloom - saiiko2

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