TAINTED

You don't know, but I recognised your voice.

You saw my innocence as an added plus.

As I lay on the floor, curled up and fetal,

I can still feel the strokes so painful and lethal.

You hit me when I laid still and wouldn't move,

But why should I when it wasn't exactly a time to groove.

My soul watched on as my body was tainted;

My sister uttered every imaginable curse word as I waited.

For the tears that wouldn't come even at my summon,

I guess my heart was too frozen to be thawed, not even by a sermon.

Your mask couldn't hide the endless emptiness and anger,

At a world so fucked up, but why make me your cougar?

As I bask in the darkness that comforts my sanity,

I retreat amidst the chaos to find clarity.

©Krystalz.