Victim

Victim

There's a pain inside me you know nothing about.
A feeling so deep, you'd need a shovel to dig it out;
It's buried right down where nothing else lives.
I can't believe reasons that my mind gives
About why it is me who suffers this way.
It is I who shares my body with this anger each day.
Please, don't try to tell me that you do understand
Because you'd never survive if you lived in my land.
That sweet, gentle smile would be wiped from your face,
And where your heart beats, a stone in its place.
Your milky white body will be battered and bruised,
Your intelligence slurred and your feelings abused.
Your soul will be taken, instead there will be
An image of the victim that no-one can see.
You'll become a silent shadow, with acid for tears,
Tears that melt your eyes as you think back to years
When you were still happy, when you were still free.
The time before you took such pity on me.
So don't try to tell me that you know how I feel.
Unless you die bleeding then you never will.
If you've never imagined the loss that I keep,
Then you'll never know how it feels when you weep
So long and so hard for something that's gone
That's called the pain of being alone.