I wanted to cry
******, I wanted to scream

How dare you make me feel this way
Make me want to fade
Out of existence

Old scars leave a phantom pain behind
Searing into my skin
Into my soul

It hurts
Oh, how the pain burns

My eyes sting
With the force it takes to fight back my tears

I choke on the pain I hide away
Until it's late at night
And I'm too full of it
To care who sees

It strangles me
Cutting off my air
Until I feel
As if I'll never breath again

The violence of it
Leaves me aching with wounds
New and old
Those unseen

As I lay across the floor
Choking and bleeding
I will wonder
If this is the end of me