When darkness falls
And swallows me whole,
When my soul leaves my body
And I’m no longer living
Just existing,
When I’m drowning in the
Yawning waters that
Crave to taste my
Bitter tears,
Echoes of
Screams
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
Ring in my innocent ears.
They paint my mind a shade of grey,
Stain my childhood like
Ink on a linen cloth,
Bleeding until I’m nothing
But darkness.
I’m covered in invisible scars from
Every time you grasped your
Cold, strong fingers
On her scarred neck,
Wishing to remove her existence
In front of my pleading, teary eyes.
Echoes of
Screams
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
Ring in my innocent ears.
Im branded with the plates, cups, mugs
That you shattered in a fit of rage,
Shards of glass
Hidden under my cold skin
Digging into my life
As you muttered death.
Pieces of me shatter
As I grow in silence,
Learning that I’m always the problem,
Learning that I’m always the cause,
Learning that you’d be better off without me.
Echoes of
Screams
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
Ring in my innocent ears.
Wiping your tears,
Hiding in the car
From the unrecognisable monsters
That grew in our love-
Broke my innocence.
“Hush, they still love
Even if they hurt.”
Words and moments that
Sting my heart when they
Come flooding back,
Drowning me in my lost childhood.
Echoes of
Screams
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
Ring in my innocent ears.
When you scratch the
Polished glass
You trap me in,
My body makes a cold embrace,
Sending goosebumps around my ruined skin
Waiting to attack as we all
Plead my heart to stop beating,
So I can flee from the cage and the
Echoes of
Screams
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
That ring in my innocent ears.
When reality replaces the echoes,
When they are no longer the past
But the present,
When the angry monster comes again,
They conjure up the
Flame that ignited that day,
Burning inside,
Slowly eating at my flesh
Until I’m ashes of the
Scream
Shouts
Crashes
Cries
That pain my vulnerable ears.