Dead Girls Tell No Lies: A Novel In Poems

Life Goes On But Lives Are Stuck In The Past

You see, it was hard

To live in a house full of

Pain and hurt and death.

But life kept going.

Although, Mama kept

Getting worse,

Kept slowely losing

Her mind,

One small nerve at a time,

She screamed Matty's name at night.

I'd hide my head under my pillows, trying

To drown out the sounds

And trying to forget

About the marks Daddy's belt

Left on my back, the scars

Stinging and bleeding

I tried to forget

But it was too hard.