Undying Pain

How long it takes to smile

To forget your face, your name, your charm

How long it takes to laugh

To forget your envy, your words, your harm

The tears that dye my pillow black

The red that stains my eyes

The suffocating of my lungs

My heart overflowed with lies

The time that I spend grasping,

Gasping, for a single breath

Drowning, in a pit less river

Cut up, lethally, sliver by sliver

Tangled between fear and courage

Crossed between love or hate

Amongst the anger and betrayal

A choice between destiny and fate

And yet no matter how far I stumble

No matter how many wounds I scrape

Three words from your crooked lips

And I’m trapped, with no escape

Stuck, like a dog penned in their crate

Caught, like a bug in the spider’s web

Terrified, like a witch tied to a burning stake

Still human even at her utmost end

They say it takes time to heal

But it is that, I do not believe

The clock has moved it’s mighty hands

Now I beg you, set me free