you judge me until I can’t stand under the weight…
you shame me until helplessness becomes my only repeating fate…
and you can’t handle it if I make a single human mistake…
I close my eyes as you continue to take and take…
and all this…which you call love…feels empty and fake…
fake…
you set me up to eventually shatter and break…
you create a dark and lonely place…
where there’s only imprisonment and high stakes…
but I just want to be free…
of everything you once did to me…
so I love all the flaws and imperfections you hate….
Lauren Kim Art 