the escape

Darkness embraces us

we all are guilty

for having a bad

consciousness

I have been abused

and walked away

I am a child

who has been saved

Ive been saved

from satan

and saved

from hell

im saved

from you

and

from everyone else

ive laughed

i’ve cried

and i’ve been hurt

all my life

I have been fatherless

and i’ve been to jail

i have been guilty

of building my own hell

I asked and asked

for the guy to leave

but then i begged him back

so he could bring back the heat

the heat of abuse

the heat of stress

the heat of me hearing

my mom get his left

me and her

have been through allot

but still where closer

than most people are

but even though i’m saved

im still lost

he ruined my childhood

tossed it out

The past he made

is my reality at last

he took physical abuse

and whipped my ass.

His physical abuse

turned verbal

once i got old enough

to bear

So physical turns verbal

both are pain

what was once physical

is now stuck in my brain