lies dripping with patronizing pity
filling their deceiving speeches
she promised it would be okay
does she believe what she preaches?
he told me to pause my thoughts,
to halt my salty tears
as if i can stop remembering
after suffering all these years.
they acted as if my mind was wrong
called my feelings fools
forced me to calm myself
but my demons don’t read rules.
everything about me
was labeled and destroyed
and every time i asked for help
i screamed into a void.
they pretended they knew it all
but i detected the lie

i refuse to listen any longer