Dear Family

Dear Family

Dear family, don’t you see

our destiny’s embedded in me?

Grown numb to the pain

of being locked away with the shame

and there’s no one to blame

Encaged, I feel the rage burning inside

Moments turn into hours

hours turn into days

and days turn into nights

My only escape is to fall into my dreams

and pretend I’m free from the misery

of this destiny that’s been placed upon me

But it’s only a dream

the reality of my destiny soon sinks in

as I awake to realize that I’m still alive

Forced to keep the secrets, yet, another day

I face the pain and the shame

as the burning rage builds inside

until I’m ill, too ill to feel

anyone or anything, I want to scream

Enough is enough!

Don’t wake me up from my dreams

sleep is the only freedom that I know