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Feb 2021
it wasn't always like this.
you used to want to play,
and talk for hours.
you'd share your Halloween candy and taught me to paint my nails.

It didn't phase me, how small I was compared to the other kids, id hurt them because you were always the timid kind.
maybe it was my fire that burned you.  
maybe as time went on it got too hot, everyone got scared and tried to put it out. forgetting about you.

you'd seen how bad the flames got, and still added fuel.
I can't blame you
I didn't understand either.
you shut your bedroom door and never opened it for me.
as only a few years back I was fighting your demons for you, now we're here and you've become my demon.
you'll say u hate me,
tell mom I'm unwanted,
and make every kid in the neighborhood beat me up.
deprive me of the joy I was already lacking.

but we were just kids right.?
"Just ignore her" always worked right?
I still suffer every day, and you still don't understand.

I tried to get us out of here and you tied my feet down.
I live with strangers
Written by
Mallory  18/F
(18/F)   
115
   Bogdan Dragos
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