by: Chelsea Rose
Blood red, it courses through my veins
It sears my body, my brain, my heart
The pain lingers as it wraps chains
Around every sense and every part
Of my body. I scream: No more!
Like an animal caught in a trap
There’s no way out, there is no door
For me to walk through and I snap
Inside myself, there’s no escape!
I scream, I hit, I fall to the ground
And lay screaming, without a sound
In agony. I hate this rape
Of mind and soul that will not abate.
A flood breaks through and knocks me down
I can’t move, it pins me with its weight
I can’t breath or think as I drown
In this pain that wants to makeme numb.
I have caused this entanglement
For myself that I can’t break loose from
Joined for life, there’s no abandonment
Of one another, pain must ensue
To move forward and not look back
At all the hardships I’ve been through
To make a life where nothing lacks.