Begging To Be Found

Ever felt frusterated with people around you? No one listens, no one cares...

 

In the midst of the screaming I am looking around

Waiting, just begging to be found.

You underestimate and see right through

Sometimes you wish I was more like you

But still I stand

Alone and at your command

I try to speak, but you don’t listen

I feel you growing, distant, distant

The smile is fake, the tears don’t fall

You don’t want to know it all

Turn your face from the pain

Let’s pretend it’s one big game

What I feel, you block from your mind

You attempt to leave the broken parts of me behind

In your desire to perfect my mind

Your eyes slowly seem to go blind

I try to reach for your heart

But the coldness I find tears me apart

Your inability to listen and hear my clearly spoken pleads

Has left me with one question, “please?”

But like everything else tainted you’ve received

You cover me up so that others believe

I am just fine, likewise are you

No one will question what no one can prove

But I want you to hear me out

In the quietness I’ll dare to shout

If you could see me for who I am

Rather than what you have planned

See me for my regrets, my mistakes

That’s all it takes

But still to you it seems to be a waste

To face the problems that have no face

Unspoken words that you’ll never say

Lead me to believe you don’t care either way

My troubles are vanished right out of your mind

They grow deeper in me till they’re all I can find

You question the truth that’s so plainly there

And the answers I give you, you can’t seem to bear

You don’t understand why I do what I do

When you’d always dreamed I’d be just like you

But if you listen closely to what I say

You’d discover that will not be the way

You don't listen, you don't believe, you don't trust, you'll never see.

I’m not you, I never will be.

 

Author's Note

This is the first thing I have posted on here so please tell me what you think.

Reviews

[Flo_writer]

You have a very good flow going. Also this feels like a poetry that readers can relate to. This feels like a father is trying to mole is son into becoming him and not really listening to what is son wants to do, or a mother forcing her daughter into a marriage to a man she doesn't love. A lot of situation's can be extracted from this, and that along with creativity makes this awesome. Great Job

[Through the Gateway]

This piece flows really well. I think you've captured the anger, frustration, and longing we all feel when we're hurting and no one seems to listen or even care.

Very well formed. I'm listening.

[Belator Books]

Ah the throes of mis-understood emotion. The lines are wrung with angst, while slightly juvenile in tone they express well the main malady of all love: inwardly-kept frustration. It is so easy to vent on paper, to express ourselves so well and completely in prose... yet how difficult it is to duplicate said monologues in person. Keep up the pen.

[dougspoetry]

I believe you truly have gift for writing poetry. The best poetry is pulled out of someones heart, it seems you have done an outstanding job of this. Your rhyming and flow were very well executed, as was your word usage. Keep up the great work.

God Bless!