Love

My heart cries for the pain I have caused,
to myself, to the ones I love.
I push them away,
and then I wonder why all day
they don’t jock me
The ones I love do not comprehend the way I am
because to them I remain an enigma.
I can not, will not, subject anyone else to the pain
that I feel within my heart and soul.
My solitude weighs a heavy toll.
Why may you ask I let myself suffer?
I lie and tell myself that it makes me tougher.
Which puts out another buffer,
Between me and the world.
For what I have experienced,
I thought that it was normal.
That was until now,
the shit it hit me like pow!
Self pity is what this is called,
but myself is what I have mauled,
by the ordeal that I have walked,
always kept my mouth shut,
I hardly talked.
But someday, somehow.
I must let someone see the person that I am,
For this upcoming test I must all night cram.
But how can one prepare for the test I must take.
Will I buckle, will I break?
This will tell me who I am, what model and make.
In the oven of life is where I will bake,
I will rise up like a cake,
my past is what I will shake.
I will tell the one I love that my heart yurns for her.
That I will be in myself complete
if I have my own love.


1998 - BLP