You stare at my timid reflection
As if I'm so far out...

"Honey you should eat"
"Dad, leave me alone!&quot...

Begin your sentence with the words of betrayal, I...
When I suffer from reckless oblivion, I'll pretend...

Where were you the night my heart turned cold?
Where were you when my story went untold...

Broken in a shattered stance, crawling inside my...
Excruciating screams come from down and deep...

You made me live in suffocation before I ever...
Choked me on shards of glass before I ever learned...

I could spill my heart and all its insides onto...
And you'd never even notice...

You said that you would love me
While you ripped my insides apart...

I don't know what happened,
All I can do is assume...

You spoke, Though you never said.
You preached, Though you never taught...

You thought that I'd bounce back
After you threw me into a brick wall...