report card

yall always said,

we can not learn without pain,

but i felt we could not learn without love either,

but you only taught me with pain,

so much for parents being good teachers,

and when,

my report card came back,

i did not pass "love",

i failed terribly,

but yall should still be proud of me,

because i aced "pain",

but still that wasn't enough,

still, i remained not being enough to bear your name.

-a little girl trying to understand why she isn't loved