You Say You Know

You say
you know how I feel
you say
you have felt that way too
but how can you know
my emptiness
my hollow inside

Do you ever
some times
need to stop feeling
anything
everything
a longing
for silence

You say,
you know how I feel
but I don’t feel
anything

Depression is isolating. When people say they know how you feel, it makes you want to scream that they can have no idea. Better to say ‘I can’t imagine how you feel’.