⚠️Trigger warning (DV & suicidal ideation)

I have tried to bargain with death so your voice would no longer be heard

I have asked the Devil himself to take me away before you could say another word

They say, “Your words wound me deeply, but your silence hurts me worse”

But even when the silence is as heavy as the soil I want to buried in

I still hear your degradation again and again,

and once more

Tongues can be sharp but yours is a 12 gauge that never will just take my life

Teasing me with cesession but never quite letting me go to the light

I clawed out of your grasp and it’s been some time,

but I still am haunted even now when I’m trying to want to be alive