Shame can hide in the dark

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Can I leave the lights off upstairs?
Your questions eat at my core, dig at my motives
See through my defenses, see me.

A therapist that hauls me out into the streets
Drags me across the train tracks
Pitches me over the edge

Leave me, in red puddles, and stones
Leverage against me
Hurl boulders and insults

Rip my clothes, tear me hair
Leave me bare
Ruined
Lost.

Curled in the streets
My own thoughts wolves
Hound me, circle, kill

I cannot be safe from my brain

I am my therapist; the doctor

I am my patient; the child

I am the village; the stones

I am the wolves; my killer

I am not safe here

Please

Please

Let me leave the lights off

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