Echoes Unforgiven

Echoes

Whisperings in the dark part of my mind

Flash, Flash Flash Flash!! Pain.

Incoherent phrases, pictures

And then it was over.

Again and again, night after night

Never leaving me, a constant companion

Sleep, I could never sleep.

Why, Why, Why, Why!

A personal torment.

Who is that laughing god

Why this terrible price?

I shouldn’t have done it, I knew that

I see their faces, all of those faces

Filled, through and through with agony

Whisperings turn to screams

Deafening me, incapacitating me

Never letting me have peace

Peace, Peace!?

I don't even remember

What would that feel like?

Smile, smile and pretend

Pretend like everything's okay

Smile through my anguish

They don’t need to know

They can’t have this on them.

I won't let this hurt them.

This is my burden, my pain

No one deserves this on them

I do this for you

Forgive me.

j.h.