It’s a heart-numbing pain

Persistent in its pursuit to damage me

Like the stroke of your palm across my face

The burn of your fingertips trailing my skin

Branding abuse and wasted time

Tears that trace curves of imperfection

Perspiring into sighs of relieved ambiguity

Anxious at the sound of your bellowing rage

I close my eyes and reminisce of nightmares

Scolding showers can’t seem to cleanse your spoils

Every inch tastes like something false you conjured up

Shadowing paths of truthful deceit

You could never truly look me in the eyes

Somewhere in you lay a broken heart

And it’s your reparation to see that I hurt just as much

So you ravage my remains like the savage you are

Thieving fairytale love affairs

Through passion that falls short of anything more meaningful than lust

A rush of sexual deficiency

Limited to the anger you use foremost for adrenaline

Because nothing can turn you on

Like the sight of a defeated innocence lost in translation

Giving in to your cruelty because help is a million miles away

Outside of walls plastered with stolen photographs

Of women you wish I would become

Submissive and docile

The kind that ask no questions

And grovel at your feet, kissing the pavement you walk on

Instead I bereave of a stolen freedom

Embezzled by your polished hands

Pillaging away at a love I almost chose to give you

Freely and uninhibited

Because your words had seduced me

Reducing me to the naïve fool I spent years trying to forget

Careless

Falling helpless to a heart-numbing pain

Persistent in its pursuit to damage me