Suffocating

I am suffocating and
I just need to be breathe.
I'm smothered under pressure
I must be relieved.
Nothing I do is right,
Nothing I say is fair.
I cry and scream and throw
a fit. 
But no one seems to care. 
Nobody will listen to what
I have to say. 
My life is not important
but I'm living everyday.
I can't do what i want.
I can't stay out late.
Here I sit and write this
poem to release my pain and hate.
I'm confused and I'm alone.
I'm lost inside my mind.
No one will search beyond my looks
to see what they might find.
So many thoughts confuse me.
Feelings I can't percieve.
In this time of adolescence
and I just need to leave.
None of it makes sense.
None of this seems real.
No one understands the emotions that i feel.
I am suffocating and
I still need to breathe.
I'm smothered under feelings.
Let me be relieved.




                                                             -Marion Distante, 13