Set Me Free

I know you don't care
but just try for one second.
My heart's about to tear,
I can't take this anymore -
just listen to me.
Stop trying to strangle me,
your hands around
my throat constrict
my words, keeping them inside.
They sit, simmering on the back burner
to go on the front of the stove again
sometime soon after
with the intensity of never before.
For once just shut up -
let me be.
Let me rid these words of burden,
let them set me free.