“What lays behind me” <br />It all started because of a conversation we had <br />It was so cold <br />And I didn’t feel okay <br />He called me lazy <br />Said I was good for nothing <br />And that I should be dead <br />And said I wasn’t perfect <br />Wished for me to be killed <br />And made me mad <br />He’d took things too far <br />I felt this anger for him so deep in me <br />He would not stop messing with me <br />So I felt that I had to stop this <br />So I screamed at him <br />I couldn’t help him any more <br />I looked around <br />See the hot coffee laying in the stove <br />I grabbed it and purposely <br />threw it on his face <br />He’d stood up and screamed at me <br />But I didn’t care <br />And he hit me one twice and three times <br />But I didn’t cry <br />I ran to my room <br />And looked back <br />I saw that he was after me <br />And when he got me <br />He hit me one more time <br />I felt his hand dropp to my back with this huge strength <br />I felt like my blood had stopped running through my body <br />My veins turned purple <br />And my eyes became watery <br />The look in his eyes made me be afraid <br />Now you have discovered the other side of me <br />You might always see me with a smile at my face <br />But if you’d lived with me <br />You’d see a different face <br />What lays behind this smile <br />Is more then you could imagine <br />What lays behind my shirt <br />Are the bruises of the pain <br />And what lays behind me <br />Is a life in the dark…. <br />By: Ana Cristina Perez<br /><br />ana cristina perez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-lays-behind-me/
