Deadly Games

Black and Blue

You paint my heart

That was once so new

You paint me slowly

With tints of black and shades of blue

I am bloody I am bruised

Your words are fire

You beat me up and then play dumb

You're a fucking liar

I lie about the aftermath

Of a single day with you

I lie, say "I'm just clumsy"

To cover the black and blue

But here is where you're wrong

You think you're the only one that can hurt me

You think the black and blue is all from you

But half of it is from me!

Why would I hurt myself? They ask

As I form another bruise

Cuz for a while I'm numbed from the pain

Of when you leave me black and blue

(N.E.B)