Biting Words

I've screamed out

All I had left in me

But emptiness is never quite enough

When your tears are flooding down faster and faster

And that tumor is growing rapidly

Faster each minute.

My mouth is dry

My voice is scratched and out

My lungs have crumbled

And I grip my chest tightly,

It's threatening to stop any

minute now.

And he told me

That he was once in my shoes

That he had been where I was,

Breaking down and out

Sprawled on my knees

And had a tearstained face.

But he doesn't know

He couldn't know

He wouldn't be grinning at me

If he had endured any of this.

He doesn't know what it is

To be alone

He doesn't know what it is

To be burned alive by your own

Fears and ambitions

To have that searing pain

In your heart

When people's words bite and sting,

Eating away at your hope, your faith.

Eating away at everything

you are.