The reason

I never told you anything
Did you ever realize that?
I would skip around
Avoiding, actually, answering any
Of your questions

I would answer without a real reply
You would nod accepting my answer
Never questioning, I would show you
A front I let you see
You never got to see the real me

I could hide so many things
The hurt you would unintentionally
Put on me, you never realized
You thought you were funny
You were NEVER funny

Your endless ridicule of everything I did
I was never good enough, beautiful enough
"I can never amount to anything"
Was something I heard every day from you
Why?

So M---er the reason I never told you was
YOU

j.h.