If The Abused Were Self Aware

Can you hear us screaming?

Do you see us dying?

Trauma and neglect altered our brain's ability to regulate emotions

Our brains believe wrong things like it’s better if we just die

We don’t mean to hurt you with our self-destructive notions

If we learn to love ourselves, things wouldn’t be so awry

People pretend when we turn 18, we’re grown up

We can’t grow up til we understand our emotions

We suffer because we didn’t learn to fill our own cup

We get overwhelmed and get lost in the commotion

We weren’t given the option to feel

If we looked back, we’d never survive

So we struggle to know what is real

We weren’t blessed with learning how to thrive

We are stuck reliving 

All we see is danger

We’re scared to start living

We feel like a stranger

We don’t want to keep slowing everyone down

But instant suicide would make our loved ones suffer

So we try to keep swimming til we naturally drown

But we’re starting to see that’s no less rougher

So here we are begging for you to see us

Imagine if we could use our energy for more than surviving

I’m sure we will put up a bit of a fuss

But give us a chance and we can prove we are more than worth reviving

They were hurting so we learned how to hurt ourselves

They accidentally taught us we needed the pain

While scientists say that we need more than ourselves

Isolation became the way we learned to stay sane

We learned it was better not to think

They convinced us that we were crazy

Mind and reality didn’t sync 

As we collapsed, they called us lazy

We are stuck reliving 

All we see is danger

We’re scared to start living

We feel like a stranger

We don’t want to keep slowing everyone down

But instant suicide would make our loved ones suffer

So we try to keep swimming til we naturally drown

But we’re starting to see that’s no less rougher

So here we are begging for you to see us

Imagine if we could use our energy for more than surviving

I’m sure we will put up a bit of a fuss

But give us a chance and we can prove we are more than worth reviving

I get that what we feel isn’t true

And you want to tell us that we are wrong

Instead validate our point of view

In the end it will help us to be strong

We are stuck reliving 

All we see is danger

We’re scared to start living

We feel like a stranger

We don’t want to keep slowing everyone down

But instant suicide would make our loved ones suffer

So we try to keep swimming til we naturally drown

But we’re starting to see that’s no less rougher

So here we are begging for you to see us

Imagine if we could use our energy for more than surviving

I’m sure we will put up a bit of a fuss

But give us a chance and we can prove we are more than worth reviving

Do you hear us begging?

Can you see us trying?