"Known" (Patreon)

I begged to be understood

For years I wrote novels on my pain

I gave all I loved the playbook on loving me

My life and sins laid bare

I explained every little piece of me

Desperate

Crying

Pleading

Do you understand now?

If I shine the light on my page

Can you see me now?

It never came

Everything I shared in love

Was held instead at gunpoint

Roadmap offered to my deepest self

Utilized as battle plans

Every scarred knee and broken heart

Left in the wake of trying to be known

Now I’d rather you not see me

My exposed soul used as weakness

Let me remain a mystery