VI

You shot my trust

Five mistakes battered with fists

With many more

Pouring over the roof

Of the cage

The leash hanging from the nail

Beaten in with my blood

Into a wall of shame

You let my identity fall

With my body to the floor

Throwing me around

Like a plush

Woven with my childhood

Something you torture me with

When you let me know

Time has given you power

Freedom tied with control

A rope of false love

To pull any part of me

That remembers who I used to be

Out of my head

Leaving me lifeless

Staring off into a void

I wish I could climb into

There is something worse than death

It's a charred, tortured life

You tease me with freedom

By leaving out the front door

But I don't want to go out there

I don't want to be

anywhere.