This is for you

Whoever you are, whatever you are

You know who you are

You broke my soul

Shattered it into tiny pieces

While I watched them hit the floor

Helpless

You gripped me in your arms

Until my very essence slipped away

What I am, what I love

Gone

Stolen through your fingertips

You’d done it before, I know you have

Stolen from so many before me

I care, but I don’t care enough

You took that too

My ability to care

My ability to help

My ability to protect

Now I’m empty

I’m nothing

You made sure of that

Empty and afraid

The perfect victim for your cold dark hands

The perfect victim for the poison you love

It’s injected into my veins until my heart stops

Stops caring, stops loving, stops living

It still beats though, but is it real if I no longer feel anything?

If I am numb and nothing but an animated corpse

Am I still alive?

Am I still on this earth?

Or is this body just a vessel holding me down

Keeping me from escape

Am I alive if a heartbeat is the only thing keeping me here?

Am I alive if I don’t care about life?

You stole that from me

I’ll never get it back

I’ll remember your cold caress for the rest of my days

I’ll remember the moment that my life ended

I’ll remember the pain that you inflicted

And the emptiness you left

You were liquid fire crawling through my veins 

And I’ll remember you