Endless Night

My eyes flutter open

My mother looking broken

As for my father, no emotion

I race to hide

I could hear footsteps coming near

I begin to silently cry

My body shivers in fear

They took me with ease,

Is this what they please?

They were so cruel

How exactly is this school?    

Even though we learned,

Our hands could be burned

They were cutting our hair 

No thought or care

I look in the mirror

I no longer see me

Some other person

Has taken my identity

I look at the endless night

This inner war I must fight

Holding on to the last of me

Every last good memory

Thoughts spiral in my head

This was the last thread

Hope is gone

I set out to leave

In the light of dawn

So much trauma to heave 

I turn away from the past 

I am free, at last

No matter how I hard I tried

I will never be the same

I can’t get the faces out of my mind

Of the nuns’ disdain

I face the big bright sky

Tears fill my eyes

I settle in the snow

I should've known

How do I withstand alone,

I could already see my gravestone

I lay down and gaze at the distant stars

My mind is broken, I have mental scars

My body starts to feel numb and I see the light 

And somewhere somehow I find peace in the endless night