Double Inprisonment

Intangible words escape her lips.

Smooth hands locked

In my worn digits.

A perfect peck on my cheek,

And the warden slams me down over his knee,

Breaking my back.

 

Hands run through auburn hair.

My hazel eyes locked onto her blue

Eyes. My arm around

Her torso,

She whispers a secret to me.

The scourging begins.

The whip strips me of my only protection.

 

The pain is unbearable,

And madness is only a whimper away.

I can taste your lips,

I bite through mine.

Blood fills my mouth.

 

The whip takes its respite.

My raw back is shackled to the granite wall.

A solid knuckle finds its way

Into my already broken jaw.

I cry out your name.

“Here she is”,

Replies the warden.

 

Across the room

A corpse is chained to the wall.

Once auburn hair,

Now mangled, knotted.

Blue eyes, clouded over.

Dainty fingers, broken every

Which way.

I attempt to recede into

Madness,

Escape the truth.

 

And as I drift,

Your corpse exhales

Only one word:

Why?