Because of you,
This pitiful life will never have true meaning.
A wasted life of broken tears,
A life you killed with your one toxic kiss.
You wrapped me around your finger so seductively,
Just the way you wanted me, frail and vulnerable,
As I fell for your sweet promises of love,
Only to find them to be the darkened pathway
That would slowly lead me to my bitter end.

Because of you,
My pale body shakes violently,
Tears flowing heavily down upon my bruised face,
As your horrid, brutal words
Replay themselves over and over
In my blackened erratic mind,
Screaming to me that I am nothing,
That I am worthless.
You say to me no one will ever love
This wretched excuse of a being.
How could they?
For you have brought upon me
My every flaw to be visible for the cruel world to see,
Even to the blinded eyes of men.

Because of you,
I no longer have the strength to stand tall...for anything.
You have drained me of this power of which
I have fought so long and hard to keep,
With what sanity I had left.
I have fallen to my raw bloody knees for the last time,
With my frozen hands clasped tightly around my sore ears
To block out your sinister voice
As you drag my once innocent name
Through forbidden dirt.

I ask of you just this one thing -
Carve out the former bright dark brown eyes that are now so dull and cold,
For I can no longer stand to see the demons staring back
At me in the cracked mirror lined with forgotten cobwebs.
Razorblade the dry lips and sew them shut with black thread,
To kill my words from making you hate me more than you already do.
Cut me through the numb heart you say you love so deeply with deceitful passion,
The heart that used to feel a calming warmth from and for life.

I bathe in this blood upon the freezing floor,
Choking on the last breath of this life damned to perpetual pain,
My hollow eyes staring at your feet.
Your quiet, diabolic laugh
And the deafening beat of my hollow heart
Are the only sounds my swollen ears hear.
As I fade away from this world,
The only thing that fills my dying mind
Are images of the past,
Of an impish girl that was at one time so carefree,
Running with the autumn breeze;
Of a little girl playing in the rains of spring,
Laughing with a childish innocence;
Of the flawless girl whose soul was once so white,
Of the young woman that is now your rag doll.

Take a good hard look at what you have created.
Look upon all of this beautiful destruction,
With your piercing unfeeling eyes.
Taste the timeless death
Of this once unscathed body,
And bury me within the diseased coffin you call your heart,
So that maybe one day -
You will feel the harrowing pain, the heavy guilt of what you have done to me.

All of this....

Just because of you.