My Fault
He told me it was my fault
He told me everything I did led up to my assault
Seven years old and painfully alone
Already grown
Unsafe,Unrealizing,Unheard.
My fault
Always my fault
He "wasnt a bad person"
Am i sure it was him, it didnt seem like something he would have done
I always wondered why they blamed the kid
I thought they would believe me, but no one really did
I've heard dozens of survival stories
Forgotten families
But am I really a survivor or did my body just flee the scene
It can never be clean
Maybe I'm still trapped there, silent and unmoving
Barely breathing, my own self soothing
Maybe I can still feel him because I deserve to
Maybe I didn't do all I could do
Sleep is not rest anymore
I am no longer a kid, at least not how I was before
Every bone in my body gives out
praying to God, my own faith riddled with doubt
But its MY fault
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