Memory
In your hands my heart is held
At your mercy;
Not one beat can escape,
Nor one thought or feeling
Without you knowing.
I am trapped in my own cage,
Where your twisted self holds the key
To my freedom.
I long for the touch of reality,
The universe of beauty -
Yet everywhere around me
I see darkness.
Your claws of perfection
Have tortured me,
Remoulded me:
I am but an empty shell,
A fading ghost.
I live merely as a memory,
A passing thought, nothing more.
I have been forgotten;
No trace is left
Of the one I was before