Because I Deserve It

Anger swells
Bubbling up and out of me
A tar pit of sticky issues
Carbonized elements
Of hardened worthless
Diamonds of my childhood
Where I buried my feelings
Deep beneath my crust
Piling intellect on intellect
In sedimentary layers of
Untapped feelings
Left to go unburied
For several decades
Until one day my foundation
Finally crumbles and forces me
To slog through the molten lava
That has been gurgling deep inside
My warm soul