Look At Me Poem by Janelle Morehart

Look At Me



Look at me



Yelling
Shouting
Screaming
Taunting
Disrespect and Insults fly
Brother and sister fighting
Mother staring on
Hardly glancing at them
Barely telling them to stop
Theres no conviction in her voice
None at all
Brother slaps sister and shoves her down
Sister cries and tries to fight back
Mother still stares on and on
Shes just a friend
Not a mother
She wont take the resposibilities
Leaving them on a young child
A girl no older than 14
Soon to be 15
Shes already 50
In her mind
Perhaps in her soul
She contains a small percent
Of the child shes suppose to be
Its a rare treat to see that child come out
She never blames
Nor judges
Shes always modest and kind
So much the adult
So mature and smart
But wheres the child?
In those grey blue eyes
Lost in sadness
And deeper in...
What is it that you'll see
Hope? Hurt? anger?
No none of those
She'll not allow them in
What you'll see is Fear
Fear of being worthless
Fear that she'll lose what matters most to her
Fear of being forgotten
Yet always wanting to be hidden
The Hidden Voice
She daydreams
I am the Hidden Voice
I save all
I help all
I am kind to all
But myself
What about me
Look at me
Look at me
What do you see?
LOOK AT ME!
But none will look
None will see
The child lost inside
Never to return
Hurt and lost
She wants to be rid of it all
But she cant
Too many need her
She cant let them down
she must not!
she wont!
She'll soldier on
And on and on
But what of her
At what price will she pay
To bring the happiness to others
To everyone she sees
She'll reply
'I love making people happy'
'Its my job, it makes me happy'
But those eyes held sadness
That smile fake
The same thought in her mind
Over and Over
And over again
'Please...'
'Please just LOOK AT ME! ! '
'See me! see the person I am! ! '
Please.....
Look at me....
See me...
Love me..
Let me be me...
Look at me
Look at me please...
Save me...
But first
Please
Just look at me

-Janelle Morehart-

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