• My rage consumed me, I couldn’t see
    Nothing mattered to me anymore
    I took my notebook and pen
    And bolted out the door

    I ran into the forest, going deeper and deeper
    Didn’t care that the bushes had scratched me
    Because to be away from them
    Would finally make me happy

    My heart was racing, me head was pounding
    I had to get farther away
    No longer will be tortured by that family
    I won’t stay at that house another day

    I stumbled over stumps, my bruised arms began to bleed
    But still I continued to press on
    They’d come home to find an empty house
    Not even noticing that I was gone

    Tears weld in my eyes, as I came into a clearing
    The moon’s silver shadow rested upon mine
    I sat in the grass, flipped through my book
    Found a poem and thought of the next lines

    Letters turned to words, as words formed on each line
    This poem was essentially my life
    I realized how sad and miserable it was
    And it pierced my heart like a cold, frozen knife

    I look up at the stars, looking down upon me
    They started weeping for my suffering and pain
    At least as I cry, the tears they would see
    Would become invisible in the pouring rain

    My mind is dead, my soul is gone
    The flames of my heart that keep me alive slowly dies
    I look to the moon, asking for a sign
    Wondering if it heard my cries

    Why am I even living, why can’t I just die
    Take the burden off of everyone’s shoulders
    Why does it always feel like
    My heart’s weighed down by such heavy boulders

    I wanted to yell, I wanted to scream
    But the strain keeps holding me back
    I was just afraid of being left alone
    What’s so wrong with that

    I realize now, the only things they saw
    Were the flaws that were born with me
    And with a sad realization I also saw
    That I became my own liability

    Wondering if somebody will find it
    I set my poem on the ground
    They’ll read the contents inside
    And my painfull past will be found

    I walked deeper into the forest beyond
    Forever leaving the world I knew
    And I know in my heart that the only person that can help me...
    ...is you…