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Open Poetry #48

Why Can't You See Me

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

0 posted 2013-10-17 11:26 PM

You see me every day
You speak to me and ask me how
  I am doing.
Why then can't you hear the pain
  screaming with every "I'm fine"?
Why can't you see the dark I am
  drowning in?
You don't see the battle for every
  inch of "normal" I possess,
The tears I cannot cry,
The sadness that eats my very soul.
Why cant you see the walls I try
   to climb,
the walls that just keep getting
   higher, thicker, blacker
Until Im just the echo of the
   penny dropped in the well.
Why cant you see...when you see me...
   do you see me
Why cant you see?

Gale
Senior Member

since 2013-06-10

Posts 578
Russia

1 posted 2013-10-18 02:17 AM

Yes, that's a problem! People have to be polite and answer "I'm fine" even if they feel "not fine". Such rules of the game.
And not anyone can see the truth (((
I like your poem, Paula!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-10-18 07:38 AM

I like this, Paula. Your inner hell comes through with verve and audacity.

~*~ Your past is just a story. Once you realize this, it has no power over you. ~*~

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

3 posted 2013-10-19 08:23 AM

Nice to read you Paula.

I feel the same way lately. Putting on a "good face" sometimes is easier.

M

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