Iām breathing but thereās need for more air
My lungs tighten and my heart does too
Thoughts after thoughts after thoughts.
I donāt care but I canāt help that I do.
Canāt choose between loving and smothering.
If I smother them they leave.
I choose to be true to myself.
I smother them with affection.
Thatās taken as a threat.
A threat that there will be too much love.
So I chose to be someone else.
A text message after an hour of being on delivered. My heart still hurts and yearns for the attention. But mind is safe because thereās no way for the heart to hurt again.
I donāt smother them I push them away.
With the thought of wondering if they even truly cared.
Itās the 14 year old boy that tore my heart to pieces
Itās the father that I was blessed with
Called a bitch an age 16 to the years I turned 19. Called a whore for wanting love at age 20.
The man I saw when I was 2 I knew he was scary. I had to be brave. At the age 3 for the warmth of something to eat or something to sleep on. A restroom was a privilege at age 5. Everything blurry but my siblings were always in a hurry to empty the bucket that we used to you knowā¦
And I canāt blame my parents for the way that I am. Iām smart Iām loving and caring but I donāt care about others. How was I supposed to care for others when no one cared about me.
I was 9 and I saw my parents fighting.
It became electric so my brother covered my eyes. It was years of being shoved in a room while my ears were ringing. Dishes breaking , screaming, my mother crying.
Then I turned 18, mothers know best right.
You trust the person that gave you life because thatās what the heart says to do.
But when you have a mother choose between two children sheās bared. The boy always wins.
Heart pounding. Hands shaking , screaming. Dishes breaking.
Sounds not too new.
Now Iām the one that fights. with my brother that once protected me from the electric air.
It was the day I turned 18 and I lost all respect for the one that has brought me into this world. Iām 18 my brother is 27.
I just turned legal.
Betrayed is an understatement.
I was a teenager and my mother chose my brothers side.
It was 8:54pm and my brother threw my mother against the wall.
Cocaine. Was the fault of it all.
āYou never disrespect the person that brought you into this world ā
Is the words my mother has taught us.
Just like my dad my brother fought his own demons.
He punched me on the day I turned 18
You see I donāt want to show I care for them for him for anyone because no manās has ever cared for me.
From birth , my father chose alcohol over me.
Now Iām 23
And I canāt seem to agree with anyone who chooses to love me.
In the back of my mind I still think itās my fault.
Wash me in the water
You can love me like a daughter.
And Iāll never be like him.















