Send Silence Packing

I see your backpacks.

The ones that felt so heavy,

You fell

And couldn't get back up.

I see you.

I hear your screaming.

I was screaming so loudly

Others couldn't hear me,

But I can hear you.

I was there too.

If only they saw you

Before you were seen

Six feet under.

I've come out the other side.

I've had people who care lift the rocks out of my backpack

So I could breathe.

I can breathe.

I never lost my breath,

But was suffocating

6 years ago.

9 months ago,

I wanted to leave.

I believed

Lives would be better

If I wasn't there.

But now I see

I am seen.

I am known.

Now I see hope

If only just a glimpse.

Now I'm clean.

I wish you could've felt that too.

Betrayal

 I gave my life to you.

You were my home.

You were my family.

I began to serve you,

But you ripped my heart out

Before turning me away.

And it burns.

My very being screams

For you to take me back,

But somehow,

That might just twist the blade.