For Someone Who Needs It

I know you think its only the weak that cry. You used to joke about it, walking down a busy street, and catching sight of a misplaced child, a heartbroken teenager..a homeless drunk, tears trickling down their cheeks. It used to be something to be ashamed of, showing weakness, proving that you were, after all, but human.
Now I know differently. I saw what happened that day last December, and I know what you went through, I felt the pain you never showed. You still feel it now don't you? It still hurts...after all this time. If anything, it hurts more knowing that you concealed it for so long, like a murderous secret, a secret that will never fade, that will always be there, stinging. Seething. Weeping pain..share it with me.

A shadow of your former self, oh sure, you laugh, you yell, you dance,
But that burning from your eyes has long faded, only embers die there,
Recalling tears of a broken heart, a wasted chance.
It hurts you doesn't it?
To know that evrything that happened was your fault,
Or so they told you.

I know the truth.
I guess you do too deep down. somewhere. somehow.
You know you have been wronged. You shouldn't have had to go through that,
Your baby sister, crying on the stairs,
To young to understand why her dad was screaming.
And her mother was lying, breathless, in a sea of red paint.

Listen to me. I will scream it if i have to.
This was not your fault. Don't for one minute think you could have changed it.
You took her in your arms and left. Never spoke of it again.
Now she's all grown up, and shes beginning to ask questions.
What will you tell her?

Baby. Darling. Lover.
Don't be ashamed to cry. Come out of the darkness you embraced upon your self,
Don't forever stand in the shadows of your parents. Your father. The rival.
Come out of the depths of solitude. Know that i am here.
A shoulder to place your head upon, an ear to share the pain.
For darling, didn't they tell you?
Its only human to cry.

yeah this is wierd i know, the latter part is the poem but it needs to be explained it the pre-paragraph thing, im not interested in poetic device and suchlike in this poem, i just wanted it here, so i can come back to it. I'm feeling a lot of vent up feelings right now.

Strong voice in this. I am gonna' nominate it for poem of the month or something.

know you think its only the weak that cry. You used to joke about it.......It used to be something to be ashamed of, showing weakness, proving that you were, after all, but human.......Its only human to cry...
i really liked these lines bc i can really relate to them. myself personally, i hate cryin! i would rather hold it all in befo i let it all out! but, i feel wat u sayin! i felt tha pain and tha sufferin! good job yo1~1~

yeah this was poetically atrocious...i am aware of this fact, lmao it was more of a burst than a poem if you know what i mean, at the time i really wanted to say everything i wrote there to one special person, but i couldn't, i couldn't let him know i felt his pain because i could see in his eyes it would hurt so much to admit how bad it felt...i dunno...

Wow, a nice piece. I like the message sent out from it. Very good man, nice stanza's and the flow was good as well. Keep it comin

Amazing. simply amazing. Although the sturcture is majorly flawed it doesnt matter in the slightest bit here, because what you lack in technical aspects, you make up for 2 times more, in emotion and imagery. you've written a magnificantly painful poem here. The emotion seeps through every single letter, you could almost feel how it hurt so bad to see someone as special as a mother, lying motionless in a sea of her own blood..... And the imagery was great too! I could picture every painstaking tear falling from the face of a little girl, and those horrid images! Overall: you've done wonderful! Its a painful poem, but wonderful none-the-less. This piece is getting nominated.

keep droppin



....bless

~*UnO*~

woah holy jesus holy roll me over in the clover....its amazing how many people you can affect with the truth...proof that theres no need to technical things up...thanks so much for understanding.