Open Your Eyes

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Open your eyes

You'll then see my cries

The words you won't hear

They're all right here

Written in the scars

On my arm and my heart

I have my cuts, caused by depression

My stomach still growls, caused by starvation

I've got this annoying voice in my mind

It's the reason I'm forced to hide

Denying all the words you typed

Take the tears that I have wiped

Because it's a lot worse than you know

My mind makes me put up a show

It has built a very thick wall

Because of the memories in that hall

More things continue to get shoved behind

Making room for my pain inside

Those cuts take that pain away

They make it easier for me to stay

But when I'm at home

My mind seems to roam

Down to the kitchen on the counter

The pain that I would have to encounter

The knives that could take away pain

The truth is that pain, it's hard to explain

I stay away, like I promised I would

Because that is what I really should

And for now I do promise to stay away

But I can't say the same for another day

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