Taken.

When I was a kid,
They told me I would be exactly what I wanted to be.
And,
I knew there was something inside me,
Whether it was a popping noise or the loudest static
It didn't matter
Because I knew it was there;
Because my voice had never been staggered,
Because my mind and never been censored.
Until I was six.
When I was six,
And before I believed that my life was going to be as perfect as the conversations I never understood between smoke and fire,
I was taken.
My body was minuscule-
Yet he took it like the poorest thief in the richest house.
My mind was vast-
Yet he stopped every thought with a single drop of sweat.
My voice was my majority-
Yet he silenced me like he was the wolf and,
Naturally,
I was lamb who couldn't let out a single squeak because of the toughest lip that wrung my neck into a bloody sink.
I was six.
And then I was seven.
And he left me behind as if nothing happened,
As if no one knew what he stole from me...
But,
Who did know?
I knew,
And he knew,
But I'm seventeen now,
And the year between young ignorance
And gone innocence
Shakes me to the soul I no longer feel
Because the years of giggling
And dancing
And loving
Seem far behind me,
And the years of sobbing
And nothing seem upon me,
Seem to follow me to the end.
My mind is sort of like a Hell, y'know?
Where my thought are demons,
But the people around me make up the Devil who commands those demons to flame and burn me to the core.
I'm seventeen now.
You're the one who set me apart from the one I thought I'd cherish for the rest of my life.
I've lost a hope I know I can't get back,
But I'll stay in this place-
And, yes,
Though I don't say a word,
I hear your call.
And I will remember that
Though I owe you nothing
And though you owe me absolutely everything
That no amount of hatred
Loathing
Fear
Will keep me from being exactly what I want to be.
I will hate you with my dying breath
And, yes,
I'm still alive,
But I will not stop
Until the fires of this Hell are put out by the already charred fingers of those who have thrown me into the fire,
And of those who I have
Dragged
In
With
Me.