Nightmares

I look outside my window

just to remind myself there's rain.

Its just a small reminder

there's no comfort from the pain.

So, I sit inside my room

to try and really sleep.

But still the nightmares come to haunt me,

inside my head the monsters creep.

As the tears run down my cheek

I look up and see a light.

Then my eyes just close again

and in my head its night.

Touch Me

When the pain is perpetual

And your sorrow is sanity.

When hurting is what moves you,

Stuck in shadows, no bravery.

When your eyes become jaded

And you are sacrificed to vanity.

When morose becomes normal

Because your companion is malady.

People walk through you

Afraid your pain will torment their souls.

If they would only cease the charade

And stop to touch the glass,

They would see me staring back.

Not the little girl lost, with tortured eyes.

Not the battered mess left behind,

But who I am beneath the shatters.

The person I have managed to be.

No matter what they say, I am still human.

Like a blooming rose I remember how to be open.

Because of love, I remember how to cry.

But still no one stops to feel me

As the masses pass me by.