mishandled‪.‬

How much longer?

Because I can officially admit.. That I'm tired now.

I'm tired of staying silent.

Tired of excusing the violence.

Tired of remaining stagnant.

Tired of picking up the very fragments

Of me

That people don't even take the chance

To notice

To see

The very shards of glass in my knees

As I kneel, weak and bleed

Out

For help

So how much longer do I take

And tolerate the bare minimum?

How much longer do I remain in this position of being

broken & bleeding?

Twenty more years?

To remain unseen?

Unheard?

Unnoticed?

Unhealed?

Twenty more years

Of being mistreated? Misunderstood ?

Of being mishandled?

I don't think so.