Dear All the Ones Who Have Hurt Me
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
Did you enjoy it?
Did you feel joy, while I felt pain?
Did you smile, while I frowned?
Did you laugh, while I cried?
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
You were awake, while I slept
You were aware, while I was not
You were stable, while I was vulnerable
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
You clouded my judgement the way lemon clouds water
I was blind in the mist of your lies
You took things you thought you deserved
You convinced me those things were not mine
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
Did you know your blades could scar?
Can you see the slashes you made across my heart, like carvings on my gravestone?
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
You fled, while I bled
I gifted unto you my life, my heart, my soul
Wrapped it up with the infinite ribbon of my love
And delivered to your deceitful masked joker
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
You gave me nothing in return
Nothing real, nothing true
Yet you took my gifts willingly
Revelling and bathing in the pool of tears I cried
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
How did you not burn?
How did you not burn when it was you who was lounging in the light of my beating heart?
You soaked in the rays of my devotion, watching
While my own helplessness devoured me, until I became empty once again
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
One cut can heal
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
Did you enjoy cutting me more?
Did you enjoy cutting me deep?
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
Did you enjoy stealing my light?
Leaving me in the cold, steely darkness
Waiting to see just when it would swallow me whole
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
I wish I could hurt you too
I wish I could steal back my light
I wish I could return my strength
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
Did you enjoy it?
Dear all the ones who have hurt me
I know I would
Copyright © Anna Mcsorley | Year Posted 2017
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