Dirty Laundry

I'm shouting! Screaming! Crying out loud!
I'm pounding my fists in the wall
As if the answer lies in this tantrum I'm throwing.
I'm damning the world that suffocates me
And I'm cursing the creature inside my soul.

My teeth snap at your skin, your arms
While you try to hold me close to you.
Spitting and snarling, obscenities and disgust
Until you forget that it's me in here.
Yet, you don't dare breathe my name.

I'm crashing now, worn down and tired
Til there's nothing but a puddle of me there
Slumped on the floor where we once danced.
There is nothing you can do for me now.
All you can do is back away slowly.

Back away slowly, and leave me alone
Piled like the laundry, crumpled and dirty.