The Introvert by Andrea Jeanette DiGiantomasso

I can't stand it when it happens
It always happens to me:
When life throws you a hardball
Then kicks out your knees.

How much can I handle
Before I start to beg?
Stress is like a little child
Clinging to a mother's leg.

Let go of me and leave me!
Why can't I be alone?
Locking all my doors and windows
Cowering in my home?

If a hermit's life is destined
Don't mock the fates and moan.
Leave me in my solemn breaths
And leave me alone!

Don't speak to me for comfort
I don't need it, I don't want
All of your false sympathies
Only further taunt.

If you must know to leave me be
I tell you with a sigh:
The reason I am introverted
(For you ask me by and by)

I used to keep good company
In school I was a scholar
Then my life began to change
As it grabbed me by the collar.

Gagging, choking, kicking for salvation
Yet never was I free
All my life came tumbling down
My only support was me.

All my friends were likewise buried
I thought they'd failed the test.
They never seemed to care for me.
They were like the rest.

Betrayal hit me like a club
No one seemed to care
No one tried to save me
As I grasped for air.

So tell me why I say hello?
Why should I so happy greet?
Should I just succumb to the world
And bow down at it's feet?

I can't! I won't! Don't say it
Don't try to tell me why.
I have seen that glint of fire
In your "loving eye".

Take your things and leave me be
I want to be alone.
Quit pretending that you care
And leave my peaceful home.

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copyright 12-20-2002

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