Slow death

I'm scared to live

I can't continue

Every breath I intake,

Is burdened with unspoken aches.

There's darkness ahead.

They'll never realize

How those monsters fed on my body,

shushed my protests,

preyed on my mind,

Corroding me from inside.

They'll never know

The hatred and fears

That's been depositing inside me for years.

Their expectations tormented me

I lived for their unfulfilled dreams.

Sacrificing my passion

These shoes didn't fit me

And they didn't alter them

They blamed me instead.

I never complained,

Not even tonight

When I am bidding this world

Goodbye.

The pain stabbing at my heart

And the tears that choke me to death,

Throbs more

than the tightly knotted rope

Entangled at my neck.

The poison spreading through my veins

Is like a balm for the years of my grief.

Slowly, the chaos in me is calming

Beyond what words can explain.