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when i left our house screaming

March 21, 2024
By Anonymous

I am worried. 

I am worried that when I left our house

Its windows still aflame


I forgot all that I had given

No longer had a name


Yet still through the smoke

Pieces of me laid there


They were the walls

The carpet

The chair


Clouded in smoke

Through my watery eyes I choked

I watched them curdle and burn

Soon to be nothing here


I must save them

Carry them out my lair

They are mine not yours

Despite my despair


In a beautiful puff of black flame

My foundation grows lame

My heart thrashes against its cage


I vomit

I starve

I wane


I cannot hold them any longer


Why are you cackling

Like a vulture in the air

What is so funny

About my deepest despair


Why are your eyes so dark

I see no light 

No spark


When did it start

When did you burn my house down

Simply on a lark


Or a long plan 

I do not know

Was it all a silly show


But the flames licks my face

Our house you have defaced


I cannot take my walls back

They are too heavy

Too old

Too strong


My dear old friend

I must leave them all

Or I will never leave 

at all


I must run out screaming

Into the night air


I must save myself


Or be crushed under your giggles

And your black eyed stare



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