I Need Somebody to Heal (Somebody to Love)

Peter wants to be noticed, heard, and acknowledged. He wants someone he knows he can trust to let him sob in their arms and tell him that he’s going to be okay. Because he’s not. He has so much anxiety and he can’t possibly contain it. Except he is and has, and it’s bubbling inside him, shearing his cells and begging to be heard. Peter forces it down because he doesn’t know what else to do. It’s a tick inside him, a growing decay screaming at him in his face, “What is so wrong with you?” The tick then sputters, “Everything” over and over again. He just wants to scream and claw it out but it can’t, it lives within him like a venomous parasite capable of death, destruction, and ruin.