Self-blamed children

Self-mutilated teens

Self-medicated adults

That’s the truth we know

And we accept it

Our secret thoughts

And ghosts of our pasts

Tell us what we are

And tag us with a name

That we know alone

We have dreams

But don’t know

If we should run after

For fear of failure

A lot of us really are

Self-blamed

Self-mutilated

and self-medicated