Literature
If I Didn't Care
If I Didn't Care
by: Shayla Hardcastle
You tell me that I don't
care anymore
all you ever seem to do
is call me a whore.
If I didn't care,
would I still be here?
Standing right beside you,
and just trying to be there.
Was there a day of practice
when I didn't think to drown myself?
Has there ever been a moment
when I haven't thought of hell?
I smile and laugh,
but is it all a show?
Am I really a stupid hoe?
There is a piece of this portrait
you have not seen,
pages in this story
you have yet to read.
I cant explain to you
what I feel in my soul,
I cannot bare you with this pain
that has made me so cold.
I know there