Nothing

Set my soul free

Let me breathe

Loosen me from

This place

Of inauthenticity

Lies and suffering

Don’t negate my truth

When you have no living proof

Of how it was for me

Why should you care

If am nothing to you

But a projection screen

At least walk away then

Because for me to be related to you

We both need to be seen and known

God knows the hurt that lives inside the skin

Of someone suffering endless invalidation

Our lives are full of wreckage

We live amongst the painful shards

Of our splintered self

Trying so hard with bleeding hands

To put the shattered pieces back together

Purely so we can see reflected

The buried depths of our truest soul

And only God knows

How many die of the cuts

Or bleed to death alone

In that vacant loveless confused place

Restlessly seeking

For any kind of home

Or way to be known

So when you tell me now that all these traumas

Should have had no effect

The only sound you will hear as I reject this lie

Is the sound of my footsteps retreating

Down a long hall

That leads me further and further

Away from you

While deep inside my soul I cry

Because in the end

All your promises of love

Meant nothing