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Poem Details
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| Title: | I need to believe in something |
| Date Submitted: | 3/8/2008 |
| Email: | crimson_surrender@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
I believe that our truths will only hurt those around us And will hurt others even more than it can hurt ourselves. I believe that the truth must be hidden at all costs. I believe in my mask, not so much in its perfection or ability but in its necessity. I believe that I have to be strong. I believe that I will continue to let people down, that I cannot be what they need or want me to be. I believe in my absolute love for my parents, and me as the reason for their pain. I believe that I won’t ever be able to be the person they most want me to be (the person I most want to be for them). I believe that their lives would have been so different had I not been born. I believe that I have hurt so many people so very much. Despite my best intentions I have hurt those I most cared for, and lost these people I care about. I believe that I was born with this poison inside of me. A foreign baby my mother’s body should have rejected but somehow held on to. A baby born so premature, but born so very much too late. I believe that some things will always. just. be.... |