Why
Why
Feeling inadequate?
Happens every day.
Carelessly brushed aside?
It's always been that way.
Then why?
Does the insult, the neglect
Make me cry?
Why are my false smiles
Accepted, respected, and
Safer than honest tears?
Why do my many blessings
Seem unearned and undeserved?
Why do I always feel
Unworthy of being heard?