A Terrible Word

The numbness of the skin

After a fire has burned through

After the winds have turned around

It stings more than any pain

Unconditional love

Ripped through to the edges

And rotten, falling away

By despicable hate

Questions, questions,

Like lashes in my skin

Bleeding upon the past

These will never heal

Shining eyes of innocence

Slit open, left open,

Leaking putrid thoughts and words

That throw me in a void

Deception, confusion

From my own blood

Cunning lies of her mind

Leave me breathless, dying