Fetal Position

When on the brink of insanity, there's no better expression of despair

Breathe

Just breathe

While they stand over

With their smug expressions

With their condescending stares

Don't let them break you

You tell yourself over

And over

But all the effort you put forth

To satisfy them

Renders to be nothing

But worthless actions

All in vain

As your father expresses

Exactly what he's thought of you

All these years

You

Throughout your volunteer work

Selfish

Your late night studies

Lazy

Your quiet demeanor

Arrogant

Your graduation from high school and enrollment into college

Little S**t

All over your struggles

Everything good you've ever done

Turned to waste

And all that matters

Is your mistakes

The sins you've committed

Against them

For being such an ungrateful

Child

You beg for their torment

To cease

You cry constantly

Stop it.

Please stop.

PLEASE!

Oh, look at her!

Mother exclaims as she bursts into laughter

Tears stream down your cheeks

As you plead over

And over

Remembering that this

Is all you come home to

Every

Single

Time

"Tough love"

They call it

As you fall onto your knees

On the brink of insanity

Crying from the pain

That's metastasized in your heart

Trying to express

How it hurts

How all their words

Reopen the closed wounds

You thought had healed

And while you're curled

Fetal position

Lying on the cold floor

You hear mother laugh so

How she howls with amusement

At your torment

So you scream

You scream as loudly as possible

Straining your vocal chords

Clamping your hands to your ears

As you try desperately to drown

The laughter

The mockery of it all

All in the name of

"love"