Hear Me

Alone, lost, trapped and crying out
screams of pain piercing the silence
Falling unheard, unrecognized, unnoticed
Am I invisible? I'm standing here
beaten and battered by life.
They look right through me, past me,
Without blinking an eye. Why can't they see me?
The once comforting solitude now is a
strangling and all consuming prison.
Hear me! Listen to me! You
You put me here, stripped naked
You stole from me the most basic
of my desires simple respect.
You took what was left of my innocence,
my trust, my desire to still see
the good in people. Now I simply see red.
You left behind you a blaze
a fire breathing in all the air around me
deflating what was left of my spirit
ashes dispersing in the winds of change.