Creeping fade

This is meant to symbolize the effect that prolonged exposure to verbal abuse/bullying can effect you.

You tell me I'm small,

Too small to carry this burden

You say I'm not strong enough

To be the one you need

How can you say I'm small,

With a heart so open and wide

How am I not strong enough,

When I carry the world on my mind

You spread whispers of rumors,

Saying how I can't be loved

You speak my world into chaos

Without any just cause

If I am truly unloved,

Then why do people say they care?

If my world is in chaos,

Then why does life stay here

You say I'm worthless,

As valuable as a grain of sand

You tell me I'm unworthy,

Too unworthy to take a breath

Have I lost my worth?

Worth less than these tears I cry?

Am I actually unworthy?

Should I just slowly die?

Author's Note

This is meant to symbolize the effect that prolonged exposure to verbal abuse/bullying can effect you: Starting from finding reasons to deny the words, then to fining reasons to write it off (but having slight acceptance of the words), then to full blown acceptance.