Poem

I wrote this awhile ago but I'd like to share it...

Screams penetrate darkness.

I am too far away

to know that it is

me.

Pain shoots through.

His movements are too sharp

for me to feel my soul being

shredded.

Walls are tearing.

I am too young

to know that he is

wrong.

Lies swirl around.

His words, said too smoothly

for me not to

believe.

Chains bind souls.

I was too beat down

to know I could be

free.

My screams stop.

But the cries still continue.

My nightmare ends.

But the scars are still there.

My blood stops flowing.

But the pain goes on.

My age increases.

But the naivety remains.

My chains are rusting.

But the imprisonment persists.

His words have stopped.

His actions have stopped.

My journey has just begun.