• You look away,
    As if it’d make me disappear.
    You don’t want to face your fear.
    Your eyes are empty,
    always looking, never seeing.
    Always searching, not perceiving.
    You’re filled with eternal apprehension,
    And I fight furiously for your attention.
    Your eyes fill with tears,
    Although you couldn’t say exactly why,
    You sit silently as you fight the urge to cry.
    And I’m baffled by the things you do.
    I can’t read you when you glance this way.
    You speak in riddles,
    I don’t understand the things you say.
    I want to know you, want to understand.
    How is it you came to be in this place?
    I plead you; show me your true face.
    I know, buried under all your apathy,
    Is someone who wants to live happily.
    I just don’t know why you’re always pushing me away.
    What happened, where did I go wrong;
    Do you even know the answer?
    Your life song sings of great potential
    Though it seems you have emotion cancer.
    I can see it eating you away, and I’m so helpless to bring a cure.
    All I want is to make things clean and pure.
    I can’t help you until you help me see.
    What is it you want, under your mask of complacency?
    Help me get inside your head,
    My precious jewel, my special gem.
    You mean so much to me.
    Why can’t we live in functionality?
    I have so many questions, left unexplained.
    I see your face, angry, tearstained.
    And you glare up at me, and say so venomously;
    “Are you happy now? You think you blocked the pain.
    But what you’re doing only makes me feel insane.
    You give me reasons to hate you, and make me so mad.
    And how we play word games is really quite sad.
    Your trying to ‘help’ me has only made things worse.”
    Then you leave me with these hateful words.
    “Everything you do will only make me fight harder.
    I am my Mothers’ Daughter”