Slap My Face
Bang!
you try to beat the hurt out of your head.
Slap
longing for human touch, even as you bled.
Butt
my whole life I bang my head on a unwieldy wall,
Punch
wish it could end as quick as I throw.
Hold me,
I need you, anybody to give me love.
A hug for the humbug of this bottomless unforgiving world.
I don't want this unlovely face to feel tears again.
Each drop,
a waste of food...
and you, need me.
Every grunt a loss of oxygen for those,
want me.
I guess it's true
that the beautiful are the pearl of this oyster world.
But perhaps I am the grit
that makes pearl possible...
I wrote this after a tough evening of work where I saw someone (a client) hit themselves and then cry. (I was and am a mental health support worker).
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