Your Poetry Dot Com - Hidden Lives

Everything I’ve held inside
From my family, friends, from you
I think my mind is starting to bend
My reality coming unglued.

Unwelcome tears flow down my face
I cannot make them cease
All I’ve hidden from you for so long
Is finally coming back at me

The tears I cry, the blood I bleed
Screaming for help involuntarily
You hug me, tell me it’s all ok
But you don’t know why I’m crying today.

So how the ***** can you tell me
That it will be alright
When you don’t even know what it is,
That you’re saying is fine?

One day I awoke and looked in the mirror
I realized that I was okay.
When I went to tell you how I felt
You weren’t there that day.

I went to the funeral with a heart full of shock
I saw the arrest, heard the story from some interviewed cop.
Saw your father on the news, being taken away
God why didn’t you tell me your life was this way?

I never knew the life you led
In my selfishness, never saw your pain
Never saw you had secrets of your own
And now I’ll never see you again.

This poem is Copyright ยฉ blackfire9786