Madds

The Weight of Silence

I look back at my

Childhood self and ask

Where I went

Wrong.

 

What did I do to deserve

Such harsh treatment?

Bullied and abused;

Cutter and suicidal.

 

Ignorance is sweet

Bliss; I cannot stop

Thinking of the days I spent

Weeping over my past self.

 

My inner child is dying

To be let out, and I can\'t

Bother listening to what

She\'s trying to say.

 

I\'m so tired, tempted to

Close my eyes and rest

Until I\'m fired, dying in a 

Dreamland.

 

Being dragged by the ankle

Is exhausting work, just let me

Be and do not lurk;

I\'m crying so I don\'t die.

 

I\'m the elephant in the room,

The secret always told;

I\'m the sadness on my mother\'s face

And the regret on everyone else\'s.

 

I\'m the anger in my chest and

Clenched fists, I am pain,

The epitome and definition,

Undeniable and uncontrollable.

 

I\'ve been screaming

At everyone and

Everything since I was

Ten.