it is hard to trust when all I've known is betrayal
please don't be mad
when I can't roll over and play dead like a domesticated dog
when I'm static and stiff, keeping my distance with wary eyes
when I need constant reassurance or when the worry pierces my heart
and pounds off the walls
turning me grey
tugging at my hair
shaking my limbs until I appear to you as a hologram
a shivering image of a girl
with a bruised heart
and
stolen lungs
Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM UTC
it is hard to trust when all I've known is betrayal
please don't be mad
when I can't roll over and play dead like a domesticated dog
when I'm static and stiff, keeping my distance with wary eyes
when I need constant reassurance or when the worry pierces my heart
and pounds off the walls
turning me grey
tugging at my hair
shaking my limbs until I appear to you as a hologram
a shivering image of a girl
with a bruised heart
and
stolen lungs
