Original Poetry

She Isn't the Same

All her many skeletons

Oh, how briefly they stay in the closet

Every thoughtless choice she makes

Is just another deposit.

Ghosts float around her eardrums

Her memory's just too keen

Pain inflicted, pain sustained

Things she shouldn't have seen.

Kicking herself for getting attached

The battle is lost everyday

Wishing they'd get out of her head--

Leave me! Go away!

Fighting to cleanse her memory

Of scars and bruises and stains

She mustn't hate, she mustn't scream

Even when they yank her chain.

Smirking at her own happiness

They'd love to see her fall

But she's learned to walk this rope with help

From those who were there through it all.

The girl you once knew is no more,

These months have changed her much-

So if you should catch a shadow of her on the street,

Feel free to look, but don't touch.

She's vaguely familiar to you

And you call out what you thought was her name

But she ignores you and keeps walking

And you realize she isn't the same.

She doesn't need you anymore

She now can truly breathe

And everything is better

Since the day she chose to leave.