Your kindness took my hand and held my gaze;
giving me what my father would withhold.
Each night I swirled inside your savage storm,
where your love left me outside in the cold.
Dragged by my hair when I starved your desires;
I fought with your enraged irritation.
Clothes torn from a body you smeared in fear;
your fierce thrusts drowned me in degradation.
Loss of my breath when crushed under your strength,
held in your vice, I learned to suffocate.
I felt love coil into a diseased corpse;
no one saw I struggled to contemplate.
Unripe fresh flesh concealed bruised broken bones;
a sweet caress hid you tear me apart.
Your cruel words embraced me with dark tones,
and bewitched the ghosts of my aching heart.
Death consumed the boy who brightened the world;
a vibrant spirit conquered by the past.
Your repressive voice echoed through the years,
and ensured a whirling heart could not last.