We all belong here.

Finishing high school means a chapter is closed, a world left behind.
Yet peace feels far away, hard to find.
The friends you thought would always stay slowly start to fade away.
There is a choice of a career, a chapter, a life to make, but none of it feels real, or fake.
The overwhelming pressure can sometimes make you truly feel alone.
We search for answers in all the wrong places, and end up in empty spaces.
There’s no guidance or rule book to the perfect adulthood.
And when the consistency around you fades unlike it should, it can sometimes make you feel lonely.

This is about the in-between stages of change and growth; where you’re not where you want to be, but you’re not where you used to be either, so it doesn’t feel like you can quite relate to anyone around you.

For me, loneliness, because I also bring in the fact that I am autistic into this as well when it comes to something like this. So naturally, a lot of my thoughts and associations with loneliness is me not understanding others and others having their own group and their own kind of [actions] and me not necessarily understanding what's going on.
So that's how I kind of associated it. That's why I had the the group of people [on the left] On the right that's meant to be, not necessarily, me, but - a lonely person, kind of to the side.

I've lost my life raft and I've been sinking ever since, further and further down into the dark blue deep.
A lonely place of seclusion, too far to see into the distance
I've had to pull myself up, time and time again
Here I tread, though don't seem to float
Somedays I can see the light, but it seems to be quickly swallowed again.
Teasing me from above, I long to break the surface
Swap the emptiness for connection
Grief for peace
Darkness for light
I do know it's out there, somewhere in the future, at least that's all I can hope for...

There is a monster inside
And it likes to hide
But when it rears its ugly head
I feel dead. In crowds of people
And all alone
Like I don’t belong
It tells me that I will always be alone
That no one understands
And when I don’t want more
I try to shut the door
But the monster never truly leaves me
Because I am lonely.