“it always gets better”

well no, no
it doesn’t, it doesn't
get better, it gets worse,
way worse.

when you think things are looking up
just wait, they will soon come tumbling
down...sweeping
your feet from under,knocking
you flat on your face. hurt
is inevitable. yet we still wake up
to be hurt time and time
again.

we slip into the illusion
that life is getting better
but, i’ve escaped this thought. no, life
is not getting better,
it’s just getting slightly less bad,
not better, just better
than the worst,
but then the absolute worst
is yet to come.

what we see as “the end
of the world”
is really just a minor infraction
in a far from perfect
life. so...sorry
world that i’m not going to live life
looking forward to the better
days i’m going to realize that today
can’t be the worst day.