The Hisrtory of Me
society never seems to wanna understand
i got feelings too just because im a man dont mean nothing
i bleed to damn
babysitter raping me at 7
told my folks got my ass whoop because liars dont make it into heaven
but all them years all them tears and noone did nothing
til i turned 10 and qwent back to my moms told her too
....um well its to late to do something...
than my teacher
samething but i knew better
or i thought i was clever because why would a woman want a boy
....umm....whatever....constant responses
and im not supposed to believe that im not more than garbage
i ask momma why i wasnt with her all those when this shyt started
i was on crack with your father
oh so you mean the drugs was more important
so why bother
i open my mouth ppl scatter like hot lava
so like that bug in my ear keep saying...why bother
pops come around in my teens
a lil late to be a father i needed you than when my ass was being treated like teeter totter
i went numb and skin grew harder
headphones in all day
eyes on the concrete and they never falter
thoughts running through my head like how it was better if i was dead
because i know so little will have tears shed
now more than 2 decades and these feelings reoccur
i know life is a cypher
but why these old demons reemerge
maybe its beaucse after all these years im still not heard
well i get it now
my emotions are up in the sky with the birds
thinking i can talk to my wife
ha ha yeah right how absurd
i was a fool than and a fool now
how
because im a man and really nobody gives a damn
its cool learned that lesson
but that just feeds the depression
feeds the obsession of wanting to correct all the oppression
and aggression but instead i fall victim to all this mess and
i can keep a smile on like im fine
inside ill drown in my tears
hostage to my fears
keep my mouth shut because its not like i got any ears
not from family wife kids or peers
this is just how mines done started
and when i realized this is is heartless and the only way to get thru
is to fall in like sand on a carpet
ill be complacent
i wont say nothing no more
at this point i made it where my heart is hollow not vacant
and im gonna keep taking
all the bs and all the stress
now i understand why im a pessamist
and its hard to envision anything other than dismalness
so ill obliterate my hopefulness because ignorance truly is bliss
Copyright © Eddie Merritt | Year Posted 2020
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