Book of Poems

I Can't Speak

I am motionless

Unable to speak

Breathe

Scream

There is nowhere for me to go

My life is gone

My hope abandoned long ago

My spirit corrupted

Yet I still smile

I still laugh

As if nothing has happened

Though I can't say how I feel

No one even notices

I'm invisible

Yet I still smile

Showing a false me

I cry because no one notices

The pain

The heartbreak

The silence

My mind in itself

Thinking of an alternate reality

My tears flow

I can't breathe

Afraid the air is toxic

While others truly smile

Laugh

Speak

Not me

I just hide in my masked shell

Always to wonder

Sometimes hoping

Yet never asking

Why can't I be truly happy

Why can't I speak