The Wall Poem by Katinka Havermans

I feel like I'm talking to
a wall
I'm trying to get through
Through to you
My head is banging
Against that concrete wall
And it hurts like hell

I try to talk with you
To reason, to talk sense
But how I cry, how I yell
It doesn't seem to matter
I can't reach you
How hard I try

I feel alone
Left in the cold
I'm fighting to stay sane
Surely but slowly
I feel I'm going to
lose it
As well as myself

The wall between us
Seems to grow
It's getting thicker
All the time
Talking to you has become
A mission impossible

© KH

(written before my husband got the diagnoses autism)