Sometimes I pray

sometimes I pray 

don’t know who 

to these days.

but I do facing up

tears splash back 

and words feel

like drowning.

And the sky

still blue, just

the darkest of

it’s hue. 

I clutch myself 

so tightly to

keep it all

from spilling, 

the bits of me.

I bear all of this 

agony and all

this secrecy 

of pain I’ll take 

with me to the grave.

So desperate I try

to save every bit 

of myself, 

so shameless and 

nobody listen 

to the voice in 

which I speak so 

vulnerably.

Everyone assigned 

me identities,

and I feel alienated 

in the only home that’s 

guaranteed mine.

So alienated I

lost touch, and such,

I clutch myself together.

And the only way start 

to seem like an attempt 

to use my wings, save 

myself, preserve the 

tenderness of my heart.

Maybe then they’ll hear 

my shameless vulnerability.

sometimes I pray 

don’t know who 

to these days.

don’t know who 

to these days.

don’t know who 

to these days.