Silence

I speak and someone doesn’t listen
I speak again and someone interrupts me
I speak and someone doesn’t heed what I say…
I stop speaking.
Now someone says ‘speak…’ and there is silence
I won’t speak again
No expressing tales, emotions and the works of my mind
Choose what you want to think
Interpret whatever you want
But you will not hear me speak
My tongue behind my teeth my jaw set
My mind calm after a mad rush of emotion
Blocking consciousness and reality
The air never reaches the tender folds of flesh
Never passing through the palate of richness
For with time speech is lost
Silence remains for silence can say enough
Maybe right maybe wrong…
It’s up to you to choose
For I will not speak

I Try I Try..

I try I try…
But I end up with nothing but a wounded spirit
Crying eyes.
Why is it so hard? All I ever do is try to please you
But it is never enough.
And when I am just done with criticism I’ll sigh…
But never will you come away to see
The hurt in my heart and eyes.
I try I try…
Always doing everything I can to make things easier for you
Feeling terrible when what I can do is limited
And yet you go on complaining and complaining
I sigh…
For I will never tell you how much you hurt me
You will only see it in your eyes
Looking at me as if I were incompetent, a child
Who knows nothing and amounts to nothing
I try I try…
And I dread the day I stop trying
For that is the day we will go our separate ways
Leaving years of trying to the ashes of time
I sigh…
For now I will keep trying
Till time and will mark a full stop on our rhyme.