I sit here alone Is it daytime, is it night? It doesn't matter
My claws mark the walls I must look like a demon As I scratch my arms
My unruly mane reaches down my back, touching My nine wild foxtails
I howl at the wall My songs, cries, stories, and poems Are all I have left
I hear with six ears If I were free, I could fly With my four giant wings
I recall that night When my friends fought so bravely Are they still alive?
But I'm trapped and chained Even if I use my flames To try melting Iron
Sometimes father comes With the acid cups and chains And sometimes his hands
He called me his child But even back then, he lied I'm just his project
I count slaps and thrusts Staring up at the ceiling Refusing to speak
What month is it, now? I have lost my sense of time In this grey stone cell
I peel my ears up Some bread comes through my door's slot It's down in one bite
When I chose my friends They showed me what feelings were And showed me the truth
I wish I could sleep This windowless torture cell Worsens my nightmares
I wake up shrieking Waking, sleeping, I don't care The nightmare goes on
I'll never tell him Whatever's on or inside me I won't betray friends
The cell's not all grey I hear music and voices That no one else can
Sometimes I dance along My chain and claws scratching tiles Laughing on a shreik
There's also Inverse My photograph negative The ghost haunting me
Inverse keeps teasing He points out my every flaw I hate that he's right
I shreik at Inverse I'm trapped, half dead, in this cell Waiting for "father"
I bite at my chain The door of my cell opens "Father" comes inside
I wrote this poem for a competition called "Scare Us", where writers try to write the scariest story or poem (the scariest entry being the winning one).