the anger,
i see it in you
that is why i hid
you never realised i cared
you just never did

deeply hurt
by what they said
did not sleep well
or feel safe in my bed

jigsaw family…

it hurts
here and now
lost in a crowd

it is amazing
how many consider
themselves to be normal

she said,
i did not know much about feminism
it is true,
i do not,

”i have read a book”,
aye, i said
”and that makes me clever”
oh, i said

troubled teen?
troubled by what
the education, the learning
the board that parents quitely forgot

tongue lashed people
bought in by the tide
bashed by,
the quizzical minimum wage
those who fought trench deep
for ignorance to be saved

only the blind
invent labels