Short-sighted

They could get you to believe you're hollow. They could convince you there is nothing inside. Did you ever suspect it was them that were so short-sighted? Did it ever come to you it's them that cannot see below the surface. You know it now. You feel it deep inside your heart. Did you ever admit to yourself they'd been causing you so much hurt? Surely not, how could you be hurt when you believed you don't even have a heart. Then what is it that'd been aching for so long? What is it that had been receiving one strike after the other, silently causing scratch marks that hardly go away.