A poem about a girl trapped in a broken family. |
Ashes Counting every second in the flickering light Hot emotion boiling inside Bottles clinking, desperate eyes Childhood ended, innocence died Every board of the straining house Saturated with groaning pain Her voice like a snake slurring downstairs His crooked grin of careless denial Her final words slipped out that night Laden with scars of the last five years In the candlelight she trembled faintly Twisted victory smiling clear Burn every board, leave nothing here Shatter every bottle, boil her poison to the air Rip the grin from his lips with flames Let them forget us like a nameless grave There's not enough joy in all the world To cover up the pain inside that house There's not enough water in a thousand wells To wash the hurt from their hearts now She lit the match and threw it down Ending the torment with a fiery yell Rage embraces delirious laughter The family forever without a name Photographs of before the fall Slowly eaten piece by piece Burn it all, the girl whispered Erase us like a deadly mistake Every happy flash, every glance of hope Every disappointment, every bitter note Consume it all, wipe it all away Leave a black spot on the ground Ashes, ashes, we all fall down |