Poisonous Words

Wounds of you inflict intense pain

scars damaging my psyche forever

vicious word guns pointed at me

stained my soul, ingrained in slices.

Your tongue cut me to pieces

hacked in little chunks of angst

chopped down my tree of life,

wood chips strewn in the wind.

Your shadows of darkness

spun me in sinister vortex,

bottomless abyss of no tomorrow.

I struggled to crawl out

bleeding fingers of hope

but jailer waited with evil stare

imprisoning me with weapons

of malignant, poisonous words.