Monster

With a sight so unsettling
it makes your heart stop
from the time you were sober
til the time you forgot

with a baseball bat in your hands
to that beautiful face
when you beat me down like a toy
a day I can't erase

In my memory exists a monster
who left me all alone
with a broken hand, a broken heart
and a dump of a home

with a crooked smile, and what a tease I used to be
a girl full of dreams and hopes
the happiness I seek

Screams that shook doors off their hinges
your whiskey breath reeked
an anger uncontrollable
a wretched soul too weak

a growing pain and guilty ghost
is now just all I am
a blade to sharp to touch
as no one understands

what I have gone through all these years
and what I continue to see
is that monster, that demon
that's right in front of me..