Cant Deal With The Pain

• Codey Perkins, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2011

I wish I could run,
I wish I could fly,
Escape in the clouds,
And be alone to cry.

Cos everything's fucked,
My mind swirls with pain,
And as my teardrops fall,
They're mistaken for rain.

Up in the sky,
Where no one can see,
It's the only place I'm safe,
The only place I'm free.

The only place I can hide,
And leave the shackles on the ground,
Escape into nothing,
Where there is not a sound.

But I always have to return,
And each time it gets worse,
I can't deal with the pain,
It feels like a curse.

I don't think I can keep going,
I've been enduring it for so long,
That when I look around,
I've forgotten where I belong.