Poetry by Patricia Roche

Poem by Patricia Roche:

RESCUE ME

 

From myself!

Living in a 9 by 10 room

Blinds shut by an umbilical cord

 

Papers on the windows

Castrated by life

Cut off from my parents

Discipline was their sword

 

It is hard to believe

My life was trapped

Behind the thickness of a door

 

No one would knock

No one would talk

I was completely ignored

 

Days turned into years

Birthdays & holidays

Never existed behind closed doors

 

Empty chair at the table

What was their reward?

TV, shows & conversations

I was excluded from

 

Faceless child, invisible spirit

Where did I come from?

 

I no longer lived in a house

A home with no family

Or entertaining friends

 

I dropped off

The face of the earth

It was hell, I was living in

Completely alienated

From love & affection

No one to speak to

No one would listen

To a word I said

But the searching of a child will never end.