I felt your knife twist in my spine
As all the blame and fault were mine
Circumstance was a dead end road
I learned then to carry the load
The tears, the scars, the bloody stain
What is life to endure such pain
The shackles I wore for many a year
Controlled me by instilling fear
Accusations, invented, compiled
Yet I loved you whenever you smiled
The tears, the scars, the bloody stain
What is life to endure such pain
Inside my own body so long ago dead
A thought flashes, why haven't I fled
The whip cracks and I move for you
Another welt, theres more to do
The tears, the scars, the bloody stain
What is life to endure such pain
Deceive my mind, splinter each bone
Nothings left to call my own
Blinded by abuse, I cannot see
I don't know what you did with me
The tears, the scars, the bloody stain
What is life to endure such pain
( For all the victims of domestic abuse )
©S. Austin Vincoski
