****** folds of paper, Bind with a sewing needle, And of course, it needed a cover page- A drawing in crayon, Because the little child in me found joy in drawing with crayons. Most of the pages were little glimpses of life. As the pages passed, drawings appeared- Drawings of what I thought I looked like, -A strange way to capture self-hate, Some pages carried words that would- Make you feel like they were pressing down on your chest, And you couldn’t really breathe. -Suffocating If I read them out loud, I would burst. Some pages had tissues speckled with blood- Like little red polka dots. They were words I couldn’t express on paper. I put them in a little box, The world will never see it. It wasn’t meant to be published.
This poem is inspired by my childhood diary. It’s made me upset about how much I was holding on to at that age.