Tolerance 07 Poem by Kira Bloom

My heart beats and my skin glistens
Can't catch my breath and I'm lost in terror
I feel it over and over
Still I can't see all these memories
I can't bring to light the darkest parts of me
So I return the the corner I once called home,
Alone
I remember the anger, I remember the blame
I remember burning hands in maliscious claim
To be betrayed by trust
To be tainted by blood
I cannot explain the weight of it
He came in the days
and sometimes at night I'd escape
I knew what was coming everytime
The bruises were easy enough to hide
As were the tears I refused to cry
Thought I'd lose them through the years
Now my one solace is corrupted by fear
His perversion so near '
Mixed with memory and future dread
I seep into withdraw again
Still what happens when I can't wake
from these transgressions
The ones I protect with my silence
are the ones who invite him in
There is no escape
No safe place
I swallow the pain with necessary rage
to fight bleeding and broken
from tolerances cage