How will you know I am hurting
If you cannot see my pain?
To wear it on my body
Tells what words cannot explain
How can I ask for your help
When I cannot find the words?
These scars are their own language
To be seen, to be known, to be heard
How can I say goodbye
To the thing that has gotten me through?
Knowing the answer is easy
Keep cutting, and lose you
How can I hurt you so badly
With what I cannot understand?
I ask you now, I plead with you
Hold me close, keep me sane, hold my hand
How will you know I am hurting
If you cannot see my pain?
Listen please, so closely
Let me start to try to explain….
Author notes
Blackened Heart - I'm new here so... I think I did this right
A contest entry
- ♥ Blackend Love ♥ by stop a bullet.
385 points, ended August 5, 2007, 23 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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This is really sad and it is often so true that others don't believe you are hurting or in pain unless they can see the evidence. You ahve lots of emotion in this write and It's very good. The rhyme and rhythm flows well and I wish you all the best in this contest
Gaylene
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this really reminded me of how i feel for someone i was dating. because i used to cut, and then that messed up things. and then she was hurting me emotionally, and i aused her to hurt emotonally. and then it was just a whole mess. but the was written so well. good luck in the contest
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Yes.. You did that right. This poem was really good. I love how you keep asking questions, then trying to answer them yourself.. it's like a conversation.. it's really good. And I love that you ryhmed and it didn't sound forced! Thanks for the entry and best of luck!
}{aley
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