Adversity

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I want to speak
but my mouth won't make a sound.
I am angry
at how the tables turned around.
I try to write
but the words just aren't clear.
Why has all my might suddenly turned to fear?

I grasp and hold
at the fragments of my story
that has to be told.
So near to my fingers
yet so far that seems like a lie.

Where is that sanity?
Where is that life?
That I never got a chance to
completely call mine.

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