Abuse
Why do the birds insist on
chirping
When the dark cloud above
my head
Soaks me with all the
emotions
That have remained bottled up
for years
Until he came into the
picture..
Roses and orchids
Scented candles
Bath salts and all
He treated me good..
I remember the times when
Halo was the glow i saw above
his head
His saintly ways fast enough
To catch my tears before they
trickled down
Bending over backwards
To protect this poetic shrine
I called my heart
Writing on my walls as best as
i could
I made pages from
Memories
Spray painted my joy on brick
walled canvases
Pouring out my love from
buckets of comfortable
feelings
But the uncomfortability of a
comfortable situation started
When i saw daddy's face in his
face
Fire breathing
Huffing and puffing
Saying **** like
" I made you, so i can break
you"
Broke me he did..
Skulls bashing on windows
Cracking bones
Like a boxing ring
And i was on the other side of
Ali's fists
Blue and blacking
My flesh
Making unhappy rainbows on
my cheeks..
The uncomfortability of a
comfortable situation was..
Tearing my heart out
Like pages from an old
newspaper
I gues i was old news..
A story told too many times to
mean **** nomore
A statistic of a problem the
nation talks about once in
every year
An anniversary of perpetual
pain to the broken hearted..
Feeling unloved like a worn
out primary school uniform
I feel the emotions and
memories from back then
Twisting and turning
Reaching out of my soul
Yearning to break out nd
break me..
Break me like daddy broke
mommy
With his big bad hand
The sounds of breaking
glasses
Morphing itself into a lullaby
Pushing me to a corner in my
room where i rocked back and
forth
Waiting for the "bad dream"
To end..
Sorries are always forgotten
when a 'Bells' starts ringing
And Labels turn Black
Intoxicated or not
The match never ends..
Walking on eggshells,
Stagnant like words unspoken
I run to these pages
Inking them with the words
unsaid
The cries unheard
It dont stop the pain
But it does make the clouds
above my head
Stop the rain ...
Copyright © Susan Benjamin | Year Posted 2014
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