What I See and What I Hear...A Child's Perspective

Nobody listens to me
You think I'm too young to know
Nobody cares what I feel
So my feelings I'll never show

Didn't you once care to ask
What all this is doing to me
Do you think I cannot hear
Each time you two disagree

I know that those words are bad
The ones you yell when you fight
I feel the door when it slams
As dad walks out in the night

I hear the tears that you cry
When you don't want to be heard
I hear the sounds as you sob
And understand every single word

I know dad's not coming home
He's staying with the new girl he met
I know that you're worried sick
Because you think she is a threat

And tomorrow you won't say a thing
Pretending it's nothing at all
Do you really think I don't know
Because I'm still young and small

I know what love means to me
It should always feel like a prize
But now I no longer believe
Maybe it's just a disguise

I don't know what else to think
You're my parents I love you, however
The one lesson you've both taught
Is that love doesn't last forever