You call it a temper

You say I get angry

Maybe you don’t see it

But I am just shutting down

So I don’t have to feel

So I don’t have to hurt

So I don’t have to talk

Can’t look in your eyes

Don’t want to feel your touch

I don’t want you beside me

Just want to be left alone

Can’t share how I feel

It festers and boils

Deep inside of me

Until I can change it

Into something more pure

Something more sacred

Something I can use

I shut down my feelings

I shut down my heart

Mixed signals across the wire

Boundaries I should have kept

I am shutting down for a while

Shutting down all for you