Slap My Face

Bang! you try to beat the hurt out of your head. Slap longing for human touch, even as you bled. Butt my whole life I bang my head on a unwieldy wall, Punch wish it could end as quick as I throw. Hold me, I need you, anybody to give me love. A hug for the humbug of this bottomless unforgiving world. I don't want this unlovely face to feel tears again. Each drop, a waste of food... and you, need me. Every grunt a loss of oxygen for those, want me. I guess it's true that the beautiful are the pearl of this oyster world. But perhaps I am the grit that makes pearl possible... I wrote this after a tough evening of work where I saw someone (a client) hit themselves and then cry. (I was and am a mental health support worker).