Best Poems Written by Anna Fugate

Are You Ok?

Are you ok?
Funny you should ask
Do you really care?
Well let me tell you

My heart is shattered 
My voice is gone
My tears have dried
There is no trace

The words I've been given
Stuffed in a hole
The ideas that spark
Put out by life 

The horrors of reality
The simplicity of death
A breath is stifled
Before it could live 

Am I ok?
No, indeed not
My heart has fallen
Into the haze

My smile
A thing of the past 
My laugh
Tainted by sorrow

The words on my lips
Shall never be uttered 
The truth in my soul
Hidden forever

The story of my life
Written before lived
Has a ending so near
If only I could read it

The stars in their knowledge 
Seem so very far
A wish to be granted 
Only once more 

Death is an allure
Life is reality 
Pain passes on
Still scars bear the tale

Of one who lived
Who braved the world 
And kept their heart 
Broken evermore 

Yet those scars
Are what Shame and people use 
To break you down
And glue you into

What is acceptable 
And right for them
And once they see
A crack in the armor 

They push in deeper
And blame you for breaking 
Pulling you apart piece by piece 
Until they see what's underneath 

Then they turn away
And deny the truth 
Because they see what they want to see
No one knows you were made this way

But do you care?
Are you listening?
Or am I just a box
To check on your way?

Would you really stay here
If you saw the real me?
Will you let me cry
Without drying my tears?

No you won't
And thats alright 
I'm used to being alone
I really don't mind 

If you feel better
Talking to me
By all means
Let me brighten your day

I know someday 
Someone will ask
Are you ok?
And you will lie

Everyone does it 
It's what's expected 
No one needs to hear
No wants to care

You have chains
So do I
From birth until death
Together we fight

In our own ways
Defying destiny
But for now our paths sever
Until we meet again

Are you ok?
I'm fine
You sure?
...yea

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