Trauma Unheard

My trauma

Makes the space you give 

Feel like a rejection

Of my worth

My insecurity 

Makes the distance we sit in

Feel like we're drifting apart

My language is touch 

Yet you never let me feel

You give me empty words

That fall on deaf ears

I've laid bare my needs 

My language, my fears

But the liar in your mind 

Twists my words 

Leaving us both in tears

I have much ahead

And so do you

Let's meet halfway

Where you more clearly 

Hear

Where I more plainly 

Speak

So that together we may finally 

Heal