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You can't escape a nightmare
When it lives inside of you
And you can't run from the shadows
When the darkness is yours too

You can't hide from the monsters
That chase and claw and tear
When you look into the mirror
The real monster is there

Behind the surface of your eyes
Inside your very head
The demons make themselves at home
And fill you up with dread

Nowhere to turn when daylight dims
Nor when the moonlight glows
No solace or escape to find
As the fear inside you grows

No warmth to be had when the cold sets in
No relief from the pouring rain
No end to the aching inside your heart
No release from the infinite pain

Trapped within a battered cage
Fashioned from flesh and bone
You desperately cling to the fragment of hope that
Maybe you aren't alone.
Undress... your mind.

Expose your explicit thoughts.
Bare your soul's deepest secrets.
Uncover your darkest sins.
Scatter each insecurity outside of these
bedroom walls.
Leave every fear to die on the cold floor.

Unmask your make-up free face.
Show off your natural glow.
Strut your never-ending legs.
Flaunt each curve as your shadow
glides across the candlelit room.
Unveil every inch of skin he was too busy to kiss.

Undress... you're mine.
I felt my world unfolding
So confused
What was true?
What was right?
It was like a tsunami
Ripped through my life
I was drowning from the destruction
I found the way to save myself
I found the rock, the branch, to cling onto
To pull myself away
From the Ghost of the relationship
From the debris of
Pain
Poetry – I will not let go
My freedom to write about
The life that nearly ended mine
Beyond Sunset and Sunrise this
Is a fight I will never give up?
Cold, dark, and lonely..
I spread my toes out in front of me,
Stretching erratically on
my bedroom floor.
  
Frantically, I grab things,
anything. To keep myself
distracted.
  
Something to bound me away from
my worries,
my fears,
my regrets.
You.
  
Sweat builds, and a
red,
inescapable rash,
consumes my face.
Choking my innocence.
Digesting my happiness.
  
I'm pulling away,
at what I love,
at what I want most in this entire
******* world.
  
And I'm scraping you off
like a scab.
Away you'll go, quick,
and easy to forget.
For now.
  
But you'll remain as a scar,
tearing at my skin,
a surfacing pain inside my mind.
  
I can't forget you.
I won't forget you.
That is why,
you must go.
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