oh, i know i am mad
i always have been
i inherited one christmas
from mum and dad

but i lived my youth,
their bent back eyes
which never discovered a truth
will never know my inside
i lived my youth,

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