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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Pain / Problems / Adversity
- Published: 02/10/2024
Can You?
Born 2006, F, from London, United KingdomI want to feel pain on my body
Because maybe then I won’t feel it on my soul.
I want to have scars on my skin
Because I don’t understand the scars on my heart
I want to be touched on my body
Because my spirit is too tender to be touched
And that is all I’ve known
That is all I’ve known
Mom, let me sleep now
I think I’m ready
Tuck me in and make me warm
Because I’ve been cold for too long
Mom, let me come home
One more time
Because I think I’m forgetting
What our house used to look like
Can you just wash me
One last time
Because I’m dirty, I’m dirty
And it keeps dragging me down
Please don’t let me go yet
Just for now
I want to see myself again
Without turning off the bathroom light
Don’t let me sink down
To the bottom
Because my heart is too deep
And i am letting myself suffocate
Mom, can you stay here
By my side
And sing me that one lullaby
That I cannot remember anymore
Can I show you my scars
My wrist and my thighs
I want you to understand it
I want to know if it can be understood
Please tell me you see it
That i am ripe
I don’t want to be empty anymore
But something is missing from inside
I tried to open my heart
Open my eyes and open my skin
But I found nothing inside
There was only blood and darkness within
I can’t find anything that makes me whole
So I might as well just empty myself
Please just don’t let me go
Just don’t let me go
Mom, can I be young again?
A little girl
Because I think I was never little
There was always something heavy in me
I want to feel pain on my soul
Because I am afraid of being hollow
I want to have scars on my heart
Because they let me create art
I want to be touched on my spirit
Because I can’t bear this world alone
And it’s something I’ve never known
something I’ve never known.
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