i didn’t deserve what you gave to me maybe i did you made me believe it you told me so you stole my innocence cliche, i know you took my time of childhood my youth turned it into something to use and abuse eight years later and i still can’t sleep right terrified of the dark, scared to go out at night i can’t be alone i don’t even want to leave my own home bruised flesh, ripping and tearing is something a twelve year old should never have known three years later, how was i supposed to figure out something that i was never shown i learned to use makeup before i hit puberty to cover up the marks so my own parents couldn’t see i never knew that it didn’t have to hurt so what started out as a little quickly got worse there was more after you not one, but two i finally lost my nerve to stand up and speak after all the times you called me weak i didn’t know what they wanted wasn’t me just because i’m okay today doesn’t mean i’ll ever be free what about the others? were there others? where are they today? i’ll do anything just to know they’re okay why was it me? by now i don’t even care was it just because i was there? where am i? i couldn’t remember over and over for two years after i was hardly sober i know i’m destroyed, damaged and lacking one year more and i finally swore there would never be anymore attacking when i get the feeling i’m inadequate i still feel like i deserve to be hit even now when the someone looks into my eyes i move away and i try to hide it wasn’t a learning experience it didn’t teach me a lesson these once bright eyes have lost all their brilliance and this defective heart has started to deaden by now i’ve come to realize there’s only today, there’s no going back you’ve turned me into what i am, i won’t thank you for that what you took from me i’ll never get back you stole the only light this soul ever had