Chicken Soup For The Soul- Redone

Suffocating

I am suffocating

And I just need to breath

I'm smothered under pressure

I must be relieved.

*

Nothing I do is right,

Nothing they say is fair

I cry and scream and throw a fit,

But no one seems to care.

*

Nobody will listen,

To what I have to say.

My life is not important,

Yet I'm living every day.

*

I can't do what I want

I cannot stay out late

Here I sit and write this poem

To release my pain and hate.

*

I'm confused and I'm alone

I'm lost inside my mind.

No one will search beyond my looks

To see what they might find.

*

So many thoughts confuse me,

Feelings I can't perceive,

In this time of adolescence

And I just need to leave.

*

None of it makes sense

None of this seems real.

And noone understands

The emotions that I feel.

*

I'm still suffocating

And I still need to breathe.

I'm smothered under feelings

Let me be relieved.

-Marion Distante