They Don't See

I step outside to see all these faces staring at me

Telling me who and what I should be

Their words cut deep within me 

But they don't see

They don't see what they are doing to me

All my life I've been told what to do

what to wear...what to say

While all my thoughts pile up

Filling my head

But they don't see

They don't see what they are doing to me

For years I've tried to please everyone

Hoping to feel excepted

wanted

loved

But I never got anywhere

I tried and tried but everything I tried never satisfied

killing me inside 

And they didn't see

They don't see what they were doing to me

Then one day you came along 

I figured you'd be just like the rest

We talked

We laughed 

But you didn't see

You didn't see what they had done to me

As months fly by and I let you in 

You're the first person to see

You saw all my pain, sorrow and suffering

And for once in my life someone saw 

Someone saw all they had done to me

And as I opened up to you

You opened up to me 

You showed me your brokenness 

That no one else had seen 

not even me 

And as our relationship grew 

We stopped caring about what people thought 

We were free from our burdens 

Because I saw in him what he sees in me 

I see the one person who loves me just for me 

just like he

And though life had other plans for us 

I still think about him everyday

I think about the one person who cared for me 

The one person who loved me just for me 

And because of you I was set free

Left with the memories of what was done to me.

Reviews

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Wow!!! Its wild reading something from anthers hands that fits so perfectly but within my vast I didn't ever find that very one. But people love to judge stone cast and call it does leave a major build up covering cracks use to really mean something inside. It is nice to have just 1 hear all that is inside and to see just what others did I so get it and have lived it.

[Brianna.garcia]

I'm glad you enjoyed my work!! It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who's felt like this before. It means a lot to know that my piece and what I went through was not only relatable but was something that someone else has overcome!

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Yeah I did very much so. There are always many who relate in same ways.

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'They Don't See'
Brianna garcia,
Honest sharing and in a poetic and lovely form- very attractive to the understanding. The title really fits. How many of us have felt this way, 'they don't understand or don't see or know how their actions are hurting another. It bugs me too to know that their is pain in this world but your poem has such a refreshing ending. Good job!
Blessings to you.
Kathy

[J]

I absolutely love this. Sometimes it's difficult to maintain a steady flow with longer poems, but you did very well.