Never Again

Beaten

Bruised

Attacked

Conspiracies

Consequences

Dying Now

Crippled

On The Sidewalk

Wishing

Hoping 

For A New Life

For The Bad To Go Away

For The Harsh Criticism To Die

For The Hate Speech To Be Silenced

For My Love To Finally Be Shared

For Anyone To Call My Name

Just Lying In The Cold

Lying To Myself

Becoming Me

But In A New Life

I Feel It

The Warmness On My Back

The Food On My Plate

The Pain Is Vanishing

And Suddenly

It All

Comes

Crashing 

Tumbling

Disastrous On My Head

Dying Yet Again

Over And Over

Until My Head Throbs

Until My Body Aches

Until Every Bone In My Body Has Cracked

Until All Of My Skin Bloody

Until I Come Crashing Back Awake

To See Them

Him

Standing Over Me

Gun In Hand

Ready To Kill Me

But He Doesn't

He Stands

Over Me

For Seconds

Then The Shot Comes

I Am Harpooned Into A New World Again

This Time Forever

Never Again

Seeing My Friends

My Family

My Uncles And Aunts

Sister And Mother

Nana Doesn't Come

Never Again

The Scent Of Leaves

The Warm Air

The Food 

The Surgeries To Come

The Medicine To Take

But Never Again

Never Again

Never

Again