The Cycle of the Shadow

Remastered version of stalker

Abuse�"it is everywhere.
It is a cage with no door,
A trap with no key.
No matter where I run,
The world feels like a weapon
Aimed directly at me.
​I am scarred by the shadows
Of the ones who should have stayed.
Father, you left me broken,
A child, alone and afraid.
I saw myself through your eyes
And I was never the same.
​Then the split came,
And I thought I’d found a shore.
I moved to her, seeking peace,
But I only found more.
I didn’t escape the fire;
I just walked through a different door.
​Dear Uncle Charlie,
You took what was never yours to take.
You stole the innocence of a child
For your own twisted sake.
My body was disrespected,
My trust began to break�"
And you were only the first
In a line of six more mistakes.
​Six perverts followed your lead,
And every one of them got away.
Then Father, you took me back,
And I let myself hope for a day.
What was I thinking?
Why did I think I could stay?
​You married my nightmare.
Dear Charity, you...
You made me a stranger to myself.
You turned my father into someone new.
I never had a childhood;
I only had the bruises you threw.
I fled when your fingers
Found the hollow of my throat.
​I ran to a friend, a "safe" place,
Looking for a lifeboat.
But the abuse followed me there,
In the house of Glinda’s spite.
She stripped my only line of love,
And told me the darkness was right.
She told me I deserved the pain,
While I sat shivering in the night.
​So I ran again.
And I am running still.
Abuse, why do you follow me?
Why do you break my will?
I don't know how much more
This heart of mine can take.
I am just waiting for the next tool,
The next hand, the next ache.
​Who is waiting in the wings?
Who is the next to choose
To be the tool of the shadow?
Who is the next... to abuse?

Author's Note

I am fine this is just a more refined version of staker