Shatter (Brandy Goodman Poem #12)<\/b><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n
I am emotionally stunted<\/i><\/p>\n
Though most people don’t see.<\/i><\/p>\n
It’s hard for me to get close<\/i><\/p>\n
Even with a guarantee.<\/i><\/p>\n
My heart wants to let people in<\/i><\/p>\n
But my brain puts on the break <\/i><\/p>\n
Because in one life<\/i><\/p>\n
There’s only so much I can take.<\/i><\/p>\n
My heart has always been tender<\/i><\/p>\n
It was so easily hurt<\/i><\/p>\n
That I had to build a wall<\/i><\/p>\n
And learn to stay alert.<\/i><\/p>\n
I couldn’t take in more hurt<\/i><\/p>\n
I couldn’t take in all the pain<\/i><\/p>\n
So I vowed to never<\/i><\/p>\n
Be vulnerable again.<\/i><\/p>\n
But that has made it hard<\/i><\/p>\n
For me to be a wife or friend<\/i><\/p>\n
It’s hard to be a sister, a daughter or a mother<\/i><\/p>\n
I can’t seem to let them in.<\/i><\/p>\n
The pain that I’ve endured in the past<\/i><\/p>\n
Still haunts me today<\/i><\/p>\n
So if I opened up<\/i><\/p>\n
From pain I’d never get away.<\/i><\/p>\n
So I stay behind the wall<\/i><\/p>\n
Every year building it higher<\/i><\/p>\n
One day the wall will shatter<\/i><\/p>\n
And I’ll be suffocated by the smoke and fire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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