You’re losing your grip on me
Your control built on hate
Is crumbling away

I am healing
Someday there will be no part of me
That you have touched

Bruises have faded long ago
Internal scars take longer
To disappear

My sense of self
Was nonexistence with you
Because of you, because of me

Someday I will no longer feel your hands
On me, hurting me
The memory will fade

I will no longer remember
In shades
Of black and blue

I am happy today
Knowing that soon
I will forget you

Forget the shouting
Sounds of broken things
Crashing against the wall

Forget the feel of your hands
Squeezing and
Filling me with disgust

I am still in pain
The aftermath of a war
That you declared on me

Your words still have a hold
But they are fading
Into nothing

Just like you