Living with Pain
"Are you numb? Do you not see the tears escaping, running from my sullen eyes? My eyes are swollen from my weeping. Do you not see that I am in pain? And I thought that you were going to be different, you made me think that you were gentler, more soothing. But no! You are just like the ones before. You gave encouraging words in the beginning and that distracted me. Although, I cannot let myself think that you do not know what I am feeling, because you know it, you have experienced it before yet you continue to poke at my dignity. Do you have no compassion? Do you have no mercy? Or do these elude you? You keep prying and perusing at my emotions which you have no permission to but I have no choice. My emotions, they are useless; they mean nothing to you. I want to run, to shout, to scream at the top of my voice but I cannot for it is shattered from my crying. I am left with no choice but to endure this pain. It is a stinging pain, but I choose to bear it...