Why does everybody take me as
Stupid?
And not just me everyone.
Everyone thinks
Everyone is
Stupid.
They think we’re too
Stupid
To understand what’s going on.
They think that we don’t
Catch on.
That we can’t comprehend
When we can and
We do.

They think we’re deaf too!
Like we can’t hear outside this door.
That we can’t hear
Every
Single
Word
They say.

They think we’re blind.
They think we can’t see
The bad things.
They think that we don’t perceive
The things
Behind our back
And the things they
Think
We shouldn’t see.

They think that we can’t feel.
That we can’t cry.
That we can’t feel melancholy.
That we can’t just
Simply
Hold the burning
Stinging  
Scolding
Tears back.
That we can’t hurt or ache
Because we didn’t hear, see, or understand
These terrible things.

No matter how hard we try not to
We always end up seeing it.
We always end up hearing it.
And then we can’t help but understand it.
We’re not stupid.
They just think we are.