Invisible Ink

Tongues and Thorns

I taste salt,

I don't understand,

Where is this dread coming from?

Why is this pain making my chest heavy?

I don't want the weight of the world,

So stop placing it on me,

I don't want to be singled out just because I think differently

But that doesn't matter

It's too late

You've felt the power

You can use such hate

So now your time has come

To make me face

A wall that you create

Every time I try and scale it

You throw me down with enmity

I didn't start a fight

I just wanted to speak

Why did my words fill you with such rage?

Why do you think the names you give me are okay?

Why do they sting as if my heart might decay?

I know what the truth is but should I say?

If I have the freedom of speech and so do they,

Then why does every word that comes out of my mouth seem to trap me in a cage?

No madder what I can't feel as if I've won a single thing.

Because even if you walk away.

You walk away cursing me.