Screamed : (ribbons)

I screamed for far too long

Trapped in my trauma

Caught up in the negative cycle

Of trying to connect

To those whose eyes were only

Opaque mirrors

The fury that drove me

Was understandable

And it was the thing that hurt

And cut me so many times that I bled

All of the pain and struggle falling upon

My own head

Now I see the truth of how I wrestled

With the mind of a child

Yes the wild tide was the truth

But how was I to manage it?

And so it is I nearly drowned

Until the drowning became the force

That made me long to swim

To breathe

To open

To resurface and most of all to love

Even those who in the end

With their blindness and ignorance

Cut me to ribbons