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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