The Comfort of Pain

The sweet comfort of repetition
The familiarity of change
Goodbye, one and all

Hear the screaming walls
Listen to the bellowing prison phone calls
Evidence but a silently crying crimson-speckled shawl

Violet
Rouge
Azure

Colours of her broken skin and smile
See them disappear upon the faded backdrop
All is snow white once more

Tirades but a memory
Locks once more secure
A heart is mended

Drip
Drip
Blood still flows
Freely from the walls it runs

A name tattooed in veins
Chains remain in place
This room
This room
This room holds her still

Love once held the thump-thump
It grew thorns
Thumping turned to dripping

Hear doors shut
Watch as windows are barred
Feel the shivering cement below

Trapped

The memories
They never left
He never left

A single whisper escapes her lips
"Love me, love me"