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Jan 2021
Someone asked what YOU do for me
The answer was something they'd never see
You never ask me questions like that
Just to start
Love how you aren't determined to drive me and my family apart
Looked downward and replied
"You would not understand"
Mentally counted reasons silently on my hand
I used to stick up for you and argue
Now I realize they'll never see my point of view
If trying they just mock me while I turn bright red
I no longer bother
Reminding myself instead

Accepting me the way that I am
Work your hardest to see me smile however you can
Remembering things I have said in passing long ago
Talk because you listen
Even when info you already know
Repeating same story you have heard a hundred times
You see it makes me happy
Don't even mind
The person who makes me feel comfortable in my own skin
Believing I'm beautiful no matter how fat or thin
Who sees me at my best and has been there for me at my worst
Despite having your own problems
Put mine first
You encourage to be the very best that I can be
Show me things you love when none of them I see
You look at me with the same warmth as the day we met
As if I'm not completely ruined yet
You have more faith in me than I have in myself most of the time
Regardless of everything
Are proud I call you mine

Though I have made so many mistakes in the past
Around you seems like the suffering won't last
This makes me sad because I wrote it when we were still together
Amanda Kay Burke
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Amanda Kay Burke  30/F/Alaska
(30/F/Alaska)   
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   erica lynn
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