A Night Wish

Even now

A decade later

You haunt me

With the memories

Of abuse.

Want to scrub

Myself

Until nothing remains

But my burnt body

Before me.

Wiping away

The caustic lye tears

Dissolving the flesh

To the bare bone.

As I lay

My torn body 

Prostrated

Before the altar

Of mercy.

Seeking

That final moment

Which serenity surrounds

My troubled soul

In peace.

Closing my eyes

As sleep claims

My soul

For the night.

Reviews

[Relic]

Things like that should never happen to anyone. The world holds horrible people as well as good ones. But this guy should be castrated. So sad.

[therisa]

This person, is my younger brother, Relic. I have seen him, since August 2007, when I told him, "he's dead to me, and I never want to see him, again." And thanks, Relic.

[Relic]

WOW!!!! I certainly didn't expect that. I'm speechless.

[therisa]

It marked part of my healing process, as he abused me, psychologically and physically, for more years, than I care to remember.

[Relic]

How can anyone ever have a normal relationship with anyone after something like that. That blow me away.

[therisa]

We didn't. He, also attacked mom, and she still took him in, when he lost his apartment. Sadly, my mom is transphobic and can't accept me, as her daughter.

[Relic]

I wish you didn't have to go through all that.

[therisa]

Relic, I count myself, lucky, as there are other transpeople, who had it worse than I did, and still making a difference, for those, in need.

[willweb]

Sad, dark and filled with sorrows of the past. Like ugly echoes that never end. The emotion is felt in your poem Therisa...I'm just sorry it is.

[therisa]

Thank you, Will, this week has been hard, for me, memory-wise, as the tears just fall, on their own.

[willweb]

This week is almost over and hopefully next week will be much better.

[therisa]

Wishful thinking, Will, as my b-day is, on Monday, and got whole load of baggage, with that date.

[willweb]

The let's just cross that date off of the calendar and pretend it doesn't exists and we'll celebrate your birthday on Tuesday. :)

[therisa]

Am find, with that, Will. Never liked those groundhog day jokes, much anyways.