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.