Trapped

You trap me in this box because I do not ‘feel’ the way you do,

‘See’ the way you do,

Or ‘hear’ the way you do

You tell me to “smile”

Or “be happy”

You say “it's gonna be okay”

When it’s not.

It ‘never’ was

Do you see now?

When I was a child,

I could ‘be’ whatever I wanted

Dream ‘whatever’ I dreamed 

And ‘say’ whatever I wanted to say

But now with ‘my’ problems

‘My’ errors,

And ‘my’ mistakes

I can't ‘be’ whatever I want to be

I can't ‘dream’ whatever I want to dream

I can't do ‘anything’

I'm stuck

Being someone who ‘isn't’ me

But is you

It’s just a copy and paste

You want me to be ‘perfect’

When I can't

‘No one is’

Sometimes I feel trapped

With no escape

Waiting,

To be freed from this plain cardboard box

Trapped

As im losing breath

Trapped

As you keep me here

Trapped

As i am stuck and cannot move

Trapped

As someone i'm not

Trapped 

Hiding it

And when i try to break free

And speak

You ‘shoot’ me down as fast as a viper

Saying “you’re overexaggerating”

Telling me “calm down it's not that bad”

But do you really know that?

Tell me,

Do you really know that?

Or are you just guessing