When Love Did Leave

I am skinned alive
Yet I appear whole
My scars invisible
To the world

My soul screams
But no one hears
In this place
Of living death

Heart's shield is gone
Soul cover absent
All stripped away
When love did leave

I want to die
All things are pain
Joy strikes blows
Life hurts too much

Let it end
This tortured time
Let me sleep
Never to wake