IN MY HEAD

While everyone else smiled I cried Listening to my heart beat as I died Now I feel nothing Speak nothing Hear nothing but the sound in my head To others it's nothing To my peers it's the demon speaking The sound which I yearn for Yet find so unbearable Making me do things unthinkable It's the sound of loneliness The only sound I've ever heard The only sound that listens and hears at the same time but never speaks.

Karen Bassey
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