The One Who Saw Me

I had no idea what to title it, so I made it that.

The red paint inched off the wall

As the black tears hardened off my face.

The colors swarmed together

Until everything was a mess of

Blacks and browns.

I curled in the corner

And shunned my eyes from truth.

And even beneath the covers

I couldn’t escape the torture.

The hurt and pain

Still seeped in

Through the open cracks.

The pain continued

To dig deeper

Until it reached my very core.

Till it destroyed me

From the inside out.

It ate away at the flesh

I once wore.

I squeezed my eyes tighter

But the pain just came in faster.

The blood rushed out of me

And spilled onto the floor.

As I sat there with my eyes closed,

I could feel that blood changing,

Blending into the mess of paint.

I opened my eyes for a split second,

And was amazed at what I saw;

Mountains of horrid colors,

And seas of poisonous creatures.

But behind it all I could see someone.

He standed there, just as scared as I was,

Searching through the mountains and seas.

But something was different about him,

He shined resplendently

And called my name like he knew who I was.

He flashed me a loving, gentle smile.

One that seemed to steal my breath out from under me.

But none of that compared to the way he looked at me.

The way he saw what was beneath

The covers, and in-between the cracks.

The way he looked and actually saw me.

Not some tortured girl

Hiding in the corner.

And in that split second that I saw him,

He almost seemed to make all the pain worth it.

Reviews

[J.S. Pua]

nice imagery..
good write..

[Daydreamer54]

i like it! it's sweet and it has vivid imagery. Great write!

[-Insertnamehere-]

Nice use of Ms. Connor's vocab(: Hahaha. This was a beautiful poem. You seem to have said everything I've always wanted to say but was never able to write. This poem was very visual, especially with the idea of the paint. This also brings a lot of hope, that you're going to go through a s**t load of pain, but that sometimes there is someone who is there that will love you or see you and make it all worth it because you got to them, or you got to experience them.
Beautiful poetry((((: