I was raised in a house of glass

One simple mistake and you could see all the cracks.

The fractured webs entangled, strewn across the walls-

One small misstep, and down the house falls.

With all that I am, how could I not?

How could I be perfect when imperfect is all that I’ve got?

How could I be what you expected of me

when I let you down with each breath I breathed?

I tried to reside within your house of glass

Just give me a stone wall, that’s all that I ask.

Something to lean on when things start to feel heavy.

Let me live and be a kid, please would you just let me?

The shatters in the glass are not easily repaired

It’s hard to unsee the damage that I put into there

Every attempt at putting the pieces back together,

Left scars that undoubtedly will stay with me forever.

The glass fragments still imbedded deep within my skin,

Serve as a reminder to keep a brick house for my kin.

A home, not just a house, where they can always feel safe.

Where they know the house won’t crumble from a silly mistake.

Where they know I will love them more with each breath they take

Where every wall built, is built for their sake.