Deadly - Poetry

Tell the stars I'll be there soon

I was born in darkness
I was born from pain
From hate
Tearing at my bones
Kissing my torn edges
I grew up in screams
And then silence
I was pressed against the roughness of the dry land
I felt the world crumble under my flesh
I saw you crying in the mountains above
Where the clouds rest after the storm
Will you take everything from me?
Nothing is all I've ever known

Tell me about how the sun shines on your back when you go home in the afternoon
And how the stars fall off from the sky in such a beautiful way
I will tell you how everything ends up crashing somewhere
How the voices in the dark sound when they penetrate your hears like a thousand needles until they bleed
You show me the scars you inflicted upon your marble skin and how you cover them when your parents are around
You tell me they are almost never around

I was born in darkness
And in my mother's eyes I saw the shadow of a life
I never saw the stars but I think they must be like the tears in my father's eyes
You were told a man never cries
But you do sometimes
I don't
I was born from pain
From hate
I scream until my lungs turn to stone
I twist and curl and struggle and turn and I carve my name in the walls keeping me under the ground

I hate
You say you love too much
Too fast and
Too hard
It hurts
You say you know pain
I'm afraid I will never feel again

But I will carve my nails in the roughness of the world
And I will crawl my way to the very mountain
You are tired of waiting on
And I will tell the stars to stop falling
I will tell the sun to stop shining
And I will dance upon the darkness
It is my friend
My enemy

I will ask you then
What do you know about pain?