Influenced Insanity

It’s hard to love yourself when no one ever wants to stay,

When family and friends are easy to forget you even have a name.

It’s hard to love your life, graciously gifted without wanting,

When family and friends taunt you with so many reasons to feel ashamed.

 

It’s a challenge to accept yourself the deplorable way you were forged,

When family and friends beg mercilessly for everything about you to be changed.

It’s a challenge to accept the fate written for you by the stars,

When family and friends make it clear that you are delusionally deranged.

 

It’s a struggle to be brave and face each day with hopeful optimism,

When family and friends are brazenly pessimistic about your valueless worth.

It’s a struggle to be brave and face each day through the agony plaguing your mind,

When family and friends don’t see a purpose in you being here on this earth.

 

It’s painful to watch all the others get by, conquer and succeed,

When family and friends make it seem so damn fucking easy.

It’s painful to watch knowing you’re broke and will never truly belong,

When family and friends scorn you relentlessly for being so wretched and sleazy.

 

It’s incomprehensible to think about what life could really be like,

When family and friends see only your diagnosed mental health disease.

It’s incomprehensible to think about how deserving you are of love from yourself and them,

When family and friends wish you would be anything but yourself to appease.

 

It’s difficult to fight and break free from the suffocating mold of normalcy,

When family and friends have chained you to a box of over-value.d conformity.

It’s difficult to fight and break free from their unrelenting pressures to convert,

When family and friends refuse to accept that you’re more than just an aberrational deformity.

Now that you’ve read mine, come check out these other amazing blogger’s poetry for our February Poetry Challenge- Family and Friends!

Blogger and Blog: Karen of Baking In A Tornado

Name of Poem: Hugs and Kisses

Link: http://www.bakinginatornado.com/2017/02/hugs-and-kisses-february-poetry.html

Blogger and Blog: Diane of On the Border

Name of Poem: Toast

Link: http://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2017/02/toast.html

Blogger and Blog: Dawn of Spatulas On Parade

Name of Poem: Friends and Family “How I love ya”

Link:http://spatulasonparade.blogspot.com/2017/02/truffles-friends-and-family-how-i-love.html

Blogger and Blog: Lydia of Cluttered Genius

Name of Poem: Friends are family

Link: http://www.clutteredgenius.com/friends-are-family/