Silent Tears Of Pain

Through the thickness of young bodies

Come the terrible voices that plague me everyday.

Harsh words and venom spill from their mouths

And I run from them.

Silent tears of pain sliding down my cheeks

And sobs wracking my heart.

I come back the next day

To face their hatred again

Though I know I've done nothing wrong.

I cry my silent tears of pain

Knowing nothing I do or say

Will make them go away.

I cry out to the protectors of our flock

But they just turn their heads from my pleads.

And then I go cry my silent tears of pain again.

I try to stay above their words

To tell myself that I don't care.

But they drag me down into a world of darkness

Where no happiness survives

And I am alone and crying silent tears of pain.

Through long days of studies I pray

To the gods I thought were so kind.

But they too ignore my suffering

And I go and cry my silent tears of pain.

Again.

Now I am beyond help

Just a numb shell of my former glorious self.

My body still walks and talks

But I am not there anymore.

I died long ago

In that place of darkness they dragged me to.

I am nothing anymore.

They have killed me.