Elephants
A Short Poem
Take a deep breath
and squeeze in through the door
Don’t tell anyone but —
there’s elephants on every floor
Nobody say a word.
Get pushed up against the wall.
It’s not worth sharing your feelings
When nobody cares at all.
Take a deep breath
push past their trunks.
Open a window
and fill up your lungs.
The elephants aren’t there
they say, challenging.
Bitterness fills the back of our minds
as hearts are blackening.
Take a deep breath
let out a cry.
Let them know,
tell the truth or die.
They heard you and it’s true,
elephants fill up our house.
But as soon as we admitted it
They shrank to the size of a mouse!
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