Broken Home
Here we go
again
No room left to
pretend
The word 'love'
Is just junk
It's meant to
cover up
The scars and
the bruises
Of fights day
and night
The mental
abuses
It just isn't right
Surviving
together
In this torture
room
This shattered
home
Can provide no
room
To breath but
to see
Hearts of soot
and ash
When the cold
took over
It broke them
in half
Strangle me
Stab me
Swallow me
whole
Spit me out
String me up
Drop me hard
down a hole
Let me crash
and burn
But never learn
The sins of this
home
The lie that is
'love'
It never ends
Like a carnival
ride
Round and
round
And up and
down
Never let me
drown
Just choke for a
little while
Then pull me
up
And whip my
back
Then start again
On the next go
round
I can't get off
This merry-go-
round
In
Frankenstein's
carnival
No mercy can
be found
Like jungle cats
We fight in
silence
Tearing to
shreds
'Til it rains
down red
The acid in the
blood
Which pours
like a flood
Burns my
wounded back
Where you
whipped me
As revenge for
my subtle attack
I knew by now
You could be
so cruel
But to turn
your back
Your subtle
attack
For a simple
question
I need not
have asked
The silence
ringing in my
ears
It's scathing
tone buries me
whole
In soot and ash
And prolongs
your attack
All the shards
From the
windows and
walls
Of our broken
home
They envelope
my soul
And take me
into the fold
Bury me in this
mold
As the one who
couldn't go
Freeze me in
time
As the failure
Who couldn't
get out
To save her
own soul
But chained to
a wall
She fell
through the
floor
She rotted away
...
Had she ever
been there at
all?
The victim of a
broken home
The subtle
abuses
They ate
through her
soul
Not breathing
but seeing
The monster's
true form
Left on her own
In this
permanently
broken home
Can't live with
Can't afford to
live without
Then die
together
In the torture
room
Of this
irrevocably
broken home
…...
Round and
round
On the merry-
go-round
Frankenstein's
carnival
Has taken you
down
Copyright © Mistylove Lopez | Year Posted 2012
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