The Words you Don't Say

You tell me not to listen

to the voices in my head

that say I'm nothing worth loving

and better off dead. 

You say you love me 

always and without any condition

I know you mean it, cause I've seen it

but I'm just an imposition.

I hear the words you don't say

they echo in my heart

when you frown and look down

on those of whom I'm part. 

"I didn't mean you", but yeah you did

you just know me by my face

you know my name, but just the same

I occupy their space. 

I am them, they are me

and it hurts when you say

they be trifling and its stifling

your ability to live your way. 

So when you tell me to love myself

as the person I was born to be

remember I've heard every word

and it don't sound that way to me.