Are You Hiding?

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Are you?

What is keeping you

So far from me?

How long?

How long, I plead,

Will I remain suffering here

In the flames of this Hell

My memories have created?

Why can't I burn them up,

too, with the wings

I gave to you?

Why can't I shoot my heart

With that same gun

Whose bullet tore through you?

Why can't I survive in the silence

That I stutter through for you?

Why can't I escape

This darkness?

In my veins,

In my mind,

In you...

My guilt...

The guilt of a thousand knives..

Of a thousand souls...

As many lives as my words have taken.

Including yours...

Why can't that be devoured

Just as my mind was,

By the hatred I contain

For myself?

Why do I condemn myself

For every lie that has poisoned these lips?

Am I such a horrid

Abomination

That I can't even love myself?

If not,

Then, pray, what could it be?

This feeling in my heart,

Like a thousand needles.

Like an emptiness I can't fill?

What is this cold voice in my head?

Whose is it?

It isn't mine...

Could it be...?

No...

You're hiding from me...

Are you still afraid?

Afraid of what I've done to you?

Or of what I could still do?

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