# Too Afraid

Author: Tunuko
Tags: Other

Too Afraid  
  
Slowly floating through a sea of silence  
My soul shivers in icy winds.  
My thoughts sail an endless cruise  
Body slammed through waves of violence.  
Light shines on the bluish tints  
Of aching flesh, badly bruised.  
  
Shattered bones are healing brittle.  
Seeping wounds are dripping red  
Through fingers clenching fists.  
Striking those frail and little.  
And smashing their tiny heads  
Spraying the walls with crimson mist.  
  
Always just as cuts have healed,  
Here's another hidden slash  
Covered by the sticky sleeve.  
The man once was your shield  
But now your meat he will gash.  
Afraid to speak, afraid to leave.  
  
Stand and open the brightest door  
And run into the day so free.  
The world will heal you,  
He'll hurt you no more.  
Through closed windows you can see.  
Leaving, the last thing you will do.  
  
Too afraid to be alone,  
This living hell, your tomb, your home.  
  
- D.Ashford  
 

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