Yeah I Got Issues

Although you have no idea, I bet you think you do
Someone once gave you a description so you thought you always knew
Or perhaps you were diagnosed and told you had it too
Whatever the case may be and whatever you choose to believe
Don't compare struggles with me.  I feel things you don't see
I have not one second free and  try so desperately 
To work through this debris, leaving each task complete

My battle is my own, it's become my second home
I fight it all alone, while you toss sticks and stones
Does it make you feel more grown, to flaunt the way you've shone
Or do you see me as a dog, undeserving of a bone

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter
You do what you need to self flatter

But when love and respect are involved 
It stings a bit, I must admit
You don't believe in me at all
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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Dillenbeck Avatar
August 9, 2017 at 12:00 PM
The title drew me in. The Torch Song lyrics draw me through and out again. Just add Stephen Sondheim and an orchestra and you are ready for the big stage of and for those calling out all forms of disrespected life. Standing ovation. Gerald Oliver
Sivey Avatar
August 9, 2017 at 6:04 AM
This one is a fantastic write my friend! Such a fabulous poem, you have delivered this piece with seeming ease and rhymed it with both internal and external rhyming quite magnificently! I loved your remarkable poem, Great Work!!
Sands Avatar
August 8, 2017 at 11:07 AM
You have done well with expression in this one Anna! You deserve better :)
Hopper Avatar
August 8, 2017 at 11:15 AM
Thank you Heidi!
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