IΒ Β remember the day I lost my soul. And I wish I could explain it better but how exactly do you explain your dignity being stepped on and your innoncence being ripped to shreds? The details don't matter because they never do. I just wanted to go back home. I just wanted to go back twenty minutes and wait for my friend. I just wanted to go back an eternity and never take my first breath because how can I still be alive when I feel so dead inside? And I was just a kid, but I grew up twenty years in the space of twenty seconds. I didn't cry because I was empty. I didn't scream because my throat was dry. I thought about flying and the sound my shoes wouldn't have made on the pavement had I had wings. Then I thought about this guy who'd made wings out of wax in the legend, and how he'd gotten too close to the sun and died. And I thought maybe I was already dead. Because my wings were melted and I was already falling down I Have drowned in oceans deeper than the universe and Like a heart lost at sea I am a human lost in the billions of lives walking around me And joking about **** and not realizing their jokes are not funny Stripping me down to an skeleton, an object to be played with, a mass of skin and bones, a live doll who couldn't get her voice to be heard by people passing by and turning their heads the other way is not funny. And I don't want to wish you dead But I can't bear to see you alive I have suffered a thousand nights Your words on my skin like a burning fire Boiling my blood with the anger a 16 year old should never have to feel I have been walking the walk of shame Eversince you spit on the floor where you lay my ruined soul and left me to die And maybe one day I won't wake up with the image of you at my throat but for now you poisonned my past so each night I bleed my ink on paper to forget the weight of your body on top of mine and I can't trust or smile or live the way I did before and I fall asleep each night feeling your shadow breathing down my neck I Am no longer a blooming flower but a rotten scent like the perfume you were wearing that night I Am not dead but I don't wish to feel so I sleep and in my dreams I wash my face with your blood and wipe my tears with my courage so I can clear my eyes and watch you as I blink you away you have not won this battle In my dreams I am the hero and I don't have bruises and marks imprinted on my body because you do not exist in my dreams But then I wake up and take twenty shattered breaths on my shaking lips and even as I suffocate in a world that doesn't understand my pain I live each day stronger than the next and let your memory fall down the land of oblivion with the hope one day I'll turn around and you'll be gone. I have hope.