MANGLED WINGS

An Angel soft and delicate,

but she can't forget 

the pain just yet;

How are these wings so sadly set

upon the shoulders of a wounded vet?

The debt

she owes: Irrelevant,

as her struggles are so neatly kept

beside the tears that she has wept

and the embers that are left...

An eternity of guilt and shame,

shattered bones and disarray

of her vicious cycle of mistakes...

So she bows her head to pray.

So many lies have slipped her lips,

crippled stories, morbid lists

of the demon that surely does exist between her precious hips...

Bliss seems much too distant,

persistent

nightmares come;

nonexistent

is the happiness,

for her smile has been undone.

He's won! He's won!

She's left alone! to cradle her own wounds!

To nurture every shattered dream: Her heart is torn and bruised.

Abuse confuses

every thought of a life spent in his arms...

Caged feelings are finally let loose

to chase her in the dark.

Monsters scream her precious name as her energy runs low;

They rip her flesh beyond repair and mutilate her soul...

And OH! They just don't really know!

the hell she dwells within!!

The flames dance upon her gorgeous face as the Devil himself grins!

He torments her with memories of a Love that gave her Life!

Then he rips to shreds her every hope with his God-forsaken knife!

His Dark Angels sneak into her head and she loses sleep at night!

She is weary from this constant battle, she has no strength left to fight...

His face she sees when her green eyes close and when they are open wide;

His scent is tattooed on her brain!! His memory won't die!!

She suffers daily! Yes she does! But he does not seem to care!

For he is still sleeping peacefully without her presence there...

So another night alone she sleeps, to see what dawn will bring;

Another day to feel the pain and spread her mangled wings...

-Kelly M. Gregory-???
(Dedicated To: JMG)