something to no one

you fed me honey-coated poison

(venom labeled LOVE)

trading kisses for bruises

and stealing Neverland

how did my youth taste

when you guzzled it like cheap whiskey

burning my innocence to the ground?

if you aren’t something

then you are nothing

you told me

and I was never

anything

to you

my eyes did not shine with galaxies

my voice didn’t move nations

and when I sang

the world did not fall silent

my bloodied hands incapable of weaving dreams

Not old enough to be so twisted

so i’m young?

kind of you to remember that now

whispering behind hands given

everything

casting sideways glances

like broken is contagious

sick

crazy

monster

they carved a thousand names

into my skin

i collected every curse

filling in the gaps of a stolen childhood

i am something

but why is it not enough?