To Forget
By Sofia Skuza Rivera
The first was successful
escaping from your mind without a trace
many others would try to
but one escape created an impossibility for the rest
unfortunate victims still left clawing at the walls
with no relief in sight
Your goal was always to affect the natural end
you were never satisfied with the way you were
more so, the way everyone else was
You had a tendency,
an inherent talent
to instill fear
a tactic to seize your prey
before they could even think of fighting back
I wanted to run
i would make it to the exit
the pain, the single needles you lodged in my skin
each of them would dissipate as I reached your end
Yet your words would pull me backward
grabbed my arms as I fought back
Until I forgot that I wanted to leave.