Branded

Your ghostly touch like a black tattoo on my pale skin,
Those cold evil fingertips caressing my every thought,
Your mocking voice forever lingers in my dreams,
As the pain forms a scar that I can never hide.

The sound of the burning innocence echoes my screams,
As you destroyed the person I will never have the courage to be again,
The fragments and the memories are all that remain,
As this welt scalds my heart and I blame myself.

Here is another echo of the many words before,
And I once said I’d never write about you again,
But I lied, because you branded me.
Unforgettably. For eternity.

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