TITAN

1000 lashes; like a burning sun,
My skin is torn.
Scars have taken place

Biting words,
Frost-bitten lips
Ice engulfs my ashamed face

Knives engorged
In bleeding skin,
They wish to see me fall

But standing, Fighting
I am a titan,
Standing TALL.

I peer on you while wounded.
I bet I look so stern-
As raging storm winds blow

You look at me afraid
I smile, that one thing yet remains:
You don’t know—

That for every unslept night,
And every brutal-tortured-

Day

They were never after me.
They were after you,
But I stood in the way

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