Failure

Just a short message to the adults in my life.

Your words are forever strewn across the sky
Red slashes above a shimmering sun
Your face is embedded in every cloud I see
A looming shadow, trapping my mind in darkness.


Your casual remarks burn me every time
A fire of self-hatred and jealousy
Of all the others you find no fault in
But I have to rise from the ashes where you leave me.


I will never cease to be attached to you
Even after you have long gone
And so the mistakes I have made in your presence
Will always be over me, a reminder that I am failing.