It rips at my edges
It dances around my words
It reaches into my secrets taking ahold of my inside
It is callous and rough as it pushes me around
I am consumed
The smoke clouds my thoughts
I can’t breathe
There is no one here to take me
and give me life
I can see my words rising up in the flame
Memories being stolen from my mind
Replaced with darkened ash
I blink back salted tears
The attack continues
I am not understood
My meaning is diminished
I am forgotten
Not cared for
Cast aside
Maybe I’ve said some words
I could have taken back
But those were-
Well, important
at least from where I stood
Banned is a big word
but I prefer “misunderstood”
I don’t fit in
Does anyone care?
It is too late now
I can’t hide
I am disappearing
I no longer have a name
I shelter myself
as my attacker lashes out
but every hiding place I find
I am found
It has been a long fight
I am willing to give up now
My worth is depleted
I am tattered and worn
There is nothing left of me
I have become tinder
to the flame of hate
hatred of the truth
I had the truth
now it is ripped out of me
Out of my heart
and set on fire
I am nothing
Nothing
Forgotten
Disposed
Eliminated
Lifeless
No one sees my suffering
No one can block me from this pain
The embers are glowing underneath me
The fire has left me exposed
I am an open book
My last page shutters into dust
I was burned to be forgotten