By Ty'ona Crocker
PROMPT—No one noticed ...
Attached to the hip, you were my one & only
Couldn’t go a second without your presence, you were my rise & shine
You were my hero of all people, my admiration was high
You gave me everything I needed, I owed you my lifeline
Years go by and something started to change
My view became clearer, it made me become estranged
I suffered in silence with things I thought I could handle
I thought you would notice when I was going mental
You never spoke up when I was verbally traumatized
I can’t tell if you didn’t know or you just didn’t want to realize
You never questioned my anger, why was I so angry at the world
You thought I was a problematic child or so you heard
You praised me for good grades because that’s all you knew
Never once did you realize what I was going through
You never saw the hate that I had to bare
You never that it could happen under your care
I was struggling on my own even though you were right there
I resulted to bad habits with the use of my bare hands
You called me stupid and crazy for the things that I have done
But those things have helped me when there was none
My cries for help seemed to not have been heard
So I fell deep down into a pit of concern
You were great physically but mentally unprepared
Emotionally undevoted it's like you didn’t care
I will not bash you as if you didn’t give me the life that we share
But the time has come where we are no longer considered a pair
Ty’ona Crocker is 19 years old and grew up in Philadelphia. Poetry is her way of expressing the thoughts that she can't always say.
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