Hear me

We speak

I try to stop myself

Yet I tell you everything

I say what I don’t want others to hear

You listen very intently

You know what I’m about to say

I wait for you to calm me

To tell me it’s ok

I know there is much to say

But I don’t speak for long

I wish you could answer

I wait for you to answer

Yet I hear nothing

Nothing but my own voice

Only the words

I mindlessly repeat

This is the way it will always be

Because there is no we

There’s only my shadow

My shadow and me