• I clean with the sunrise
    By noon you tell me it is not enough.
    Your petty cleaning must be the same as your body.
    Your body must be filthy like this house.
    I cling to my fist hoping not to slap them.
    I bathe my hand in cold water.
    I stay in the house and they yell at me.
    I leave the house and they yell at me.
    Unlike her I am not a teenage mother.
    Unlike him I am not a waitress.
    Unlike her I continue college.
    Unlike him I continue to succeed.
    Why must they question myself?
    I do my best to please
    but I only disappoint.
    She does not love.
    He is annoyed by her.
    I watch from afar to see the explosion arise every month.
    You are hideous.
    You are lazy and fat.
    Unlike her my legs do not touch each other.
    Unlike him my clothes match.
    Are they aware of their words?
    My heart continues to drown in sorrow.
    Living stresses myself out.
    Why do I live in an aggressive family?!
    Is it necessary to please them?!
    I wish to see my disappearance,
    only to see their true intentions.
    For now I decide to see them as strangers...