a burden
they don’t yell at me
they yell about me
like I’m a math problem
neither of them can solve.
my grades are collapsing
like lungs
in the last breath of a drowning
i am sinking
and the water is quiet
my body
a hollow house
every room dark
but somehow still
too much to carry.
when I speak
they flinch
When I’m silent
they forget I’m here.
I feel the weight of myself
pressing into the earth
it presses back
like it wants me gone too
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