How It Is

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Note: sorry if some of these poems sound kinda like rants. Poetry is how I get my feelings out so I totally understand if you don't wanna read my poems of those that sound like rants. 


You cry so we comfort you
You laugh so we laugh with you
You're in pain and we take it away
You're tired so we let you sleep

I cry and no one comforts me
I laugh but you don't know that it's fake
I'm in pain but you just add more to it
I'm tired but I never get a break

You make me feel bad when I do
The slightest thing
I don't let you know that you've been 
Destroying me piece by piece

You are the cause of so many things
So many things that you think I don't know about
But that's just how it is

Listen,

I torn my self-esteem down on my own
But you torn away my trust for you
Now I can hardly trust anyone
I feel like I am not trustworthy
I feel like no one will ever be able to trust me

Why?

Because of you
My parents and some parents you are
I wanted to be the good child
One who laughs and smiles
But you got the opposite

You wouldn't even know where to start
You think I'm like them
At school 
But I'm not

You see the stuff that those kids look at
But have you ever thought about getting to know me
Your own daughter

I wish I could be happy and smile
I wish I wasn't the way I am
Crying, hitting myself, harming myself

And you are a big cause of it
Of what you do to me
Have you ever thought about me faking my emotions
Me faking how I feel
That I put up a mask to protect you
To protect you from me

I scream and I yell
I cry and don't laugh
When you're sad we comfort you
When I'm sad you tell me to brush it off

I ask for help and I don't get it
You ask for help and lines of people come
You tell me to be social 
And when I refuse I get in trouble

Now I feel bad all the time
I'm not good enough
I'm not who you want me to be

I see who you want as a daughter
It hurts that I know I'm not what you wanted
I see and hear how you talk to the other girl
I know you would wish she was yours
She's smart, talkative, social, the perfect one for you
She's not me

Maybe
Just maybe
If you wouldn't do that to me anymore
You wouldn't tear me down to the earth's core
Maybe you just wanna know
That I'm slowly dying inside
Slowly fading away

There's things you could do about it
But I know you won't
And that's just how it is

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