#value and validation

As a child she was the family hider, The peacemaker and pleaser. She felt everything that everyone else denied. And it hurt, she cried, and was belittled for crying. Many years later, The family began to call At first for money, For an ear. And again and again, Asking eventually for someone To pick up broken pieces, Older than she. For nine other people Or they would burn Within…

If you give a person a fish they can eat for a day…. You know the saying, So why do we try to give knowledge and thoughts, What does treating knowledge like a dead fish to be given away, do for anyone? Cause food poisoning, most likely. I’ll barf it back up, at anyone who stays near, And think I henceforth hate fish. Why would we value something without personal meaning? At least meaning…