Don'T Look At Me
Yes, I’m scared of you,
But not because I don’t want you.
Because I do!
Because I fall fast.
Because I have an edgy uneven past.
Because if I open up you may run away.
I feel it every time you look at me that way.
Sometimes I don’t know the things to say.
I’ve never been close to anyone.
I wish to tell you how it begun.
My dad hurt me when I was six.
Its nothing you can fix.
Now he’s serving a child molesters plea.
The closet was the only place for me.
I couldn’t save my brother when fate turned the other way.
The nights I pray
But it wasn’t god’s way.
The world is hard, as I want to be,
But when you look at me its not me you see.
Don’t look at me!
I leave!
I’m make believe!
Copyright © Jeanette Huston | Year Posted 2005
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