mishandled. - Treshawna Dehaney - Bog

How much longer?
Because I can officially admit.. That I'm tired now.
I'm tired of staying silent.
Tired of excusing the violence.
Tired of remaining stagnant.
Tired of picking up the very fragments
Of me
That people don't even take the chance
To notice
To see
The very shards of glass in my knees
As I kneel, weak and bleed
Out
For help
So how much longer do I take
And tolerate the bare minimum?
How much longer do I remain in this position of being

broken & bleeding?
Twenty more years?
To remain unseen?
Unheard?
Unnoticed?
Unhealed?
Twenty more years
Of being mistreated? Misunderstood ?
Of being mishandled?
I don't think so.