Eli Scripps

Why We Fight (an alphabet poem)

All the anger you have built up deep inside of you,
Because of all the sights you’ve seen and traumas you’ve been through,
Create a cloud of memories that haunt you as a ghost,
Demanding that you strike out at the ones you love the most.
Every time you shut me out, look down and turn away,
Finally I start to cry, there’s nothing I can say.
Gone away who I once knew, replaced with someone else,
How can I know what you want when you don’t know yourself?
I love you, you know this, I tell you every day.
Just tell me why you feel the need to always run away,
Knowing that you love me and that night will turn to day,
Look at me, turn around, take a breath and stay.
Maybe you’re afraid to change and face what’s really there,
Never having known the sense of having someone care.
One day I hope you realize that his was meant to last.
Put an end to hurting me, forget your haunting past.
Questions as to why you do this race inside my mind.
Round and round right through the pain but answers I can’t find.
Saying that you’re sorry does not always make it right,
The marks left on my body ask me why I didn’t fight.
Unable to move those fearful nights I tried to understand,
Victimized by loving you, I could not move my hand.
Wont you put an end to this and just give peace a chance?
X’s and O’s attached to a note, a perfect school yard romance.
You are everything to me, I’ve yet to find out why,
Zombies from the past come out and always make us cry.