You were alone and wanted to belong
Now to them you're delinquent and wrong
You’re once the pride now the shame
Their

If you never see beyond today's horizon
or seek an answer deeply hidden
If you only see the seed
and not the flower
and only

I hold my head down low
Shoulders are hunched
I can't look people in the eye

No now, not after what I did

I cut myself from

Poetry: Shame

Inner feelings so difficult to name

Inhabit our thoughts and minds

Bringing about hurtful shame

Desires of the

A Crying Shame

There were kites floating in the sky,

the green was overgrown with feet

following the distractions strewn