Your words
Hurt more
Than the pain
That drips from my wrists

The physical scars
Will heal
But your words
Leave indefinite marks
On my heart

I think that
What hurts most
Is that you don't notice
My tear-soaked sleeves
And the gray in my eyes

It's interesting
How quick
I can change

One second
I could be flying
The next
I could be face down on cement
My limbs outstretched
Like a star

Not much breath
Going through my lungs
A mixture of a panic attack on the way down
And the impact of my fall

How can her smile be so bright
While her heart is so dark?
How can there be a twinkle in her eyes
While her body is full of marks?

The snow can only be seen
Through a small window
Behind a cage-like grate
Put there for "safety"
As if someone could make it through
That thick glass

"You are free to go"
The words I'd been waiting for
Since I had arrived