Stockholm Syndrome Lullabye

I can hear them speak behind my back 
She's gone and had a hard attack
She's slowly losing her mind 
And I watch as your hands twist
Tight around her skinny wrists
Your lovesick Valentine 
If feel the bruise you gave me 
Spread against my skin 
Stretching from my hairline
Down until my shin 
I know my life's been pretty good
But mama is upset
Daddy's always angry 
And I am just a wreck
 
I feel you in my bones 
I try to excorsize your ghost 
But it has made a home 
And I have been a sorry host
My heart just wants to roam
But you have gone and made the most
Of one more ulgy lie
The Stockholm Syndrome lullabye
 
I've started to believe I'm alone
Cause my head's stuffed with rag and bone
And I've been losing my mind
And I watch as our smiles fade 
With skinny hearts and fire raids
A fuse lit by the blind 
I feel the scars I've won
Scream into the wind
It makes me wonder if I 
was chaste or if I sinned
I know my life's been just alright
But my lover breaks my neck
My friends are in the bathroom 
And I am just a wreck
 
I feel you in my bones
I try to excorzise your ghost
But it has made a home
And I have been a sorry host
My heart just wants to roam 
But you have gone and made the most 
Of one more ugly lie
The Stockholm Syndrome lullabye 
 
I love my captor 
The trauma ward's rapture
I love my captor
The final chapter
I thought I was worth a lot
But I love it when you say I'm not
I watch you hold her taught
And I feel myself shaking 
fraught with weight from waking 
to the dawn
The moon falls into the sea 
And I cry anon
 
 
 

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