You are one man
Human
Your blood runs like mine
Your heart beats normally
Despite the fact it doesn't work at all
You have ten fingers and ten toes
Your one pair of eyes
placed perfectly on the sides
of your sunken in face.
As I relive the things you've done
You are more than one man
And your blood runs as cold as the arctic
Both of our hearts
beating too fast for either one of us to catch
But our hearts beat for different reasons entirely...
yours with the relished feeling of power and control
mine with the anticipation of entrapment and fear
Reliving trauma, everything multiplies.
You have 50 hands
One for each time
You assaulted me with them.
Your eyes multiply
Like spiders in the dark
Your face morphing
As if it was being drawn out by a dementor
I try and remind myself
that you are JUST ONE.
You have the same amount of strength
as someone who loves me.
We are both broken, like pieces of a smashed vase
The relieving thing is,
I can superglue myself back together
But you will always stay broken.
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 at 3:50 PM UTC
You are one man
Human
Your blood runs like mine
Your heart beats normally
Despite the fact it doesn't work at all
You have ten fingers and ten toes
Your one pair of eyes
placed perfectly on the sides
of your sunken in face.
As I relive the things you've done
You are more than one man
And your blood runs as cold as the arctic
Both of our hearts
beating too fast for either one of us to catch
But our hearts beat for different reasons entirely...
yours with the relished feeling of power and control
mine with the anticipation of entrapment and fear
Reliving trauma, everything multiplies.
You have 50 hands
One for each time
You assaulted me with them.
Your eyes multiply
Like spiders in the dark
Your face morphing
As if it was being drawn out by a dementor
I try and remind myself
that you are JUST ONE.
You have the same amount of strength
as someone who loves me.
We are both broken, like pieces of a smashed vase
The relieving thing is,
I can superglue myself back together
But you will always stay broken.
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