Violets

Trapped without escape I lie
Restrained, unclear as to why
Before I can blink an eye 
Shed a tear, squeak out a cry
Skyscrapers crash down on me

Crush, flatten, imprison 
my limbs
For crushed they cannot move
Skyscraper,
taking
me home
Show me what is love

Lungs 
like 
pancakes
heart 
compressed
short
breaths 
compromised 
and 
stressed

I don't know I fight to survive
fight to breathe, to stay alive
What seeps in is, "Is this love?"
Skyscraper, from up above
Crumbling down on top of me 
Pain of this intensity 
Severs my mind from body 
Skyscraper, can't feel my legs
Rib cage flattening like eggs
Pressed down firmly on a grill

Time passes so slow, I still 
Disconnect from what I'm in
Fight or flight from fear of death,
When they ask I grin

This lesson thrusted, pushed in hard
Learned it well and good 
Don't ever let you know you hurt
That way they never would 
Make it worse, prolong the wait 
Under the fallen tower
That seemed to try to kill me slowly
With each passing hour

Turn violence to violets
Pretend I do not know 
Here we must pretend we see that only violets grow 
Violations to violets 
Burn it in my mind 
And bury it, dead acrid soil
So deep that I won't find, 
It perhaps forever
Between my heart and throat
Turn violence to violets 
And on their beauty gloat

For fear of death was running me
So violets they had to be