Slap in the Face

A slap in the face
What to do?
Slap number one
Your fears are true

Slap number two
It gets forgotten
Despite your scars
And feelings so rotten

Slap number three
It’s all your fault
This brings your world
To a crashing halt

You don’t understand
They promised aid
But seemingly your healing
They will avidly evade

Why are you the one
Who needs to change
When they were wrong
It seems so strange

You’re just a broken girl
Picking up pieces from your life
So why are they adding
To your troubles and strife

I think I’m starting by
To their vision see
It’s not about them
But who you’ll be

You have no control
Over the actions of others
Only your own choices
Are you allowed to cover

We must learn to let go
Of the pain and the hate
Or we will get their
Very worst traits

In a world where no one
Ever really seems to care
We must let others and ourselves
Our hard burdens bear

Or we will just grow
Into hate and anger
As we become to ourselves
An untrustworthy stranger

It’s easy to paste on
Yet another hiding mask
To play it so safe
So we don’t get attacked

I know that this
Is far beyond hard
But we must change
And show that we’re scarred