let me be free

what’s in this head making me feel so insecure behind bars of self-hatred unable to accept that I’m lovable the intellectual battling the emotional and losing every time closing my eyes and seeing all the people who stole a piece of me kids are mean, they all say yet all my life it’s been the adults who have broken me down whispering when they thought I couldn’t hear or proclaiming hatred in front of everyone how do you find peace when every person you see as potential for hurling insults living with fear trying to run trying to ignore trying to convince the world that I’m ok why can’t I be me why can’t I accept what I came to be stop holding me back from happiness let go of my shirt and let me be free