Expressions, Issue III | Page 6

TRAPPED

By: ANONYMOUS

My wounds are deep and are slow to heal

Cut so hard yet nothing to feel

Hiding true thoughts behind a smile

True thoughts so sinister and vile

Looking now, in my reflection

Seeing all the wrong and imperfection

Remembering words through my head

Hurtful words that they’ve said

Each thought hits me like a cold slap

Leaving me so cold, alone and trapped.

There’s been long enough of a wait

I have come to a decision

“It’s time for me to meet my fate”

I think, as I make my next incision

I think again of the icy words

That went beneath my skin.

Boring through my bones,

Freezing my heart from within.

It’s so frozen, it’s soon to snap

So cold, alone and trapped.

All the intolerance made them blind

So ignorant to what they’ve done to my mind

They don’t care for what they’ve said

For all the bullets gone to my head,

Now it’s time, time to leave this world

With its mean, intolerant, boys and girls.

There’s no going back now, there’s no changing routes

Now I’m forever trapped,

With no way out.

ARTWORK:

KACEE HOOKER

ARTWORK: CHASE AMOS