Irrelevant

Why is what I say

irrelevant irrational discredited

unimportant to the matters at hand

These things These words

that are so important to me

Fall unwanted unheeded

Why is it I'm persuading persisting proving to you

that what I care about

matters

to me and others

And disregarding that?

It hurts It stays

it curls up like a snake in my head

and squeezes and squeezes

until I'm curled up stomach tight eyes stinging

running over what I could have done

And that whispering

persists

Telling me that no matter what

I say

You don't care

and that I don't matter

irrational irrelevant not needed

discarded

What I am and Who I want to be

is not what you want So you don't want to hear

me