The words get in the way

I know the right thing is to feel

But each time I open up

I feel like that little boy inside

Crying for attention but needing to

Run and hide

The words I speak

Sound like gibberish to you

You try to slow me down

But the words just disappear

Lost inside my memory

I speak slower to no avail

My mumbles make no sense

It sounds like I am crying out

The pains inside my soul

As you touch my darkest parts

Trying hard to heal my pains

You hope to touch that part of me

Where the words no longer hurt

Where the right thing is to feel

Less like that boy inside

But I cry to you like children

As I try to figure out how I feel

We keep on struggling along

Forgetting the things I should have said

Only to run and hide

As the words get in the way.