The unbearable pressure

Squeezing air from lungs

Pushing pain behind the eyes

Don’t be shrill

Don’t shout

Never refuse…anything

Just say no

Say it once

See how loudly

It will be ignored

Boundaries

Are for everyone else

Hide yourself away

Vanish behind the object

They want you to be

Never female

Only archetype

There is no room

For the shipwreck of who you are

The pressure piles on

Boulder after brick

A test case

To see when you will collapse

For you are only a thing

Still less, always less, than human – Caroline A. Slee