Broken Inside

No one quite understands

How I really feel

Sometimes I want to tell them

The things I can't reveal



I tell the trees my secrets

And whisper to the stones

Sing with the wind

Feel the fire in my bones.



Write on my flesh

With icy steel

Draw deep and full

So that I may feel



Draw thorns on my skin

With blackened ink

They'll protect me

From my human links



Broken inside

I hear the crow's call

I may be blind

But I can see me fall



Such a world of hate

I'm so sick of the lies

I'm sick of the turmoil

Someone answer my cries.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this after reading Green Angel by Alice Hoffman for the first time. I used to like it, but now it seems kind of... unoriginal. 2003

View foxgloves's Full Portfolio
tags:
forgeteden's picture

It's because of all the "Broken" poems going around nowadays probably. I personally liked it ^.^ with all the metaphorical thingers and all that.
Very good, I like it