Malevolence Poem by Melissa Joy Chesky

Paint a sun on
A gray tinted sky.
Plaster a smile on my face
So they can't see me cry.

Rules too confined,
I just have to defy.
Actions so absurd,
I just have to deny.

They disperse on with a
Hope and a dream;
Life wans before me
And unravels like a seam.

I hear their fiery laughs,
And I hear my faltering sighs,
Too ignorant to see all the
Hurt I consume in my eyes.

Emotional scars are seen
Still after years past.
They never seem to ebb,
They always seem to last.

The thing that hasn't killed me
Yet is all the pain,
But it seems as though my
Hope has all been slain.

The anguish from my childhood,
The damage has been done.
You've ruined my life,
I hope you had your fun.