The Tragedy of Innocence

So it begins in this room Where my life was thrown astray The death of innocence Nothing will ever be the same Caught in the slide, caught in a prison Nowhere to hide, legs squeezed tight And he shows me Just what little girls are for And I'm not here anymore And even a child of five can see There is something wrong with this Taking what I have to give As I'm taking him in Caught in the slide, caught in a prison Nowhere to hide, legs squeezed tight And he shows me Just what little girls are for And I'm not here anymore

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

I am a child of eight Reborn in the fires Hidden scars of pain Thoughts are out of mind But every time they surface A shock to the system Sensation overload As I become undone In my shell Free from pain Buffer me Washing me In my shell I will find My own hell In my mind Words are empty They can't convey Thoughts that need expressing So much left unsaid Acting out Killing time Slipping up Losing my mind In my shell Free from pain Buffer me Washing me In my shell I will find My own hell In my mind I'm bursting at the seams It's not what it seems I'm just a child with a secret I've seen too much for my eyes I can't express what's on my mind I've lost the will to even try Flashbacks in my mind I’m fighting an uphill climb I've lost my will to roll the stone Inviting in the demons To cover up this feeling And let my world just go to hell If you could only see the real me You'd probably turn in disgust If you only knew my shame I'd rightly earn your distrust To think I could have laid with him It's such a haze of memories I finally see I wouldn't blame you at all If you saw me as a monster In my shell Free from pain Buffer me Washing me In my shell I will find My own hell In my mind Mommy doesn't understand But Daddy's there for me Washing over

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

Caressing the bottle And burning the dragon With no one around It was instant comfort Sneaking into the night The darker side of life Hanging with all the lowlifes They all Took a part of me Took a part of me Soul Deceiver, True believer I can keep in all the pain Suffocate me, violate me I can keep in all the pain The demons calling and I'll come crawling To a hell that I create The sun is setting, the light is fading In the hell that I create Mommy dropped the hammer But she had lost control In a blink of an eye The streets were my home At the age of fourteen When he forced himself on me With guilt and promises They all Took a part of me Took a part of me

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 25, 2025

Visions of grandeur infecting their minds Clouding their views of humanity Ignorance consumes one's intelligence Unforgivable beyond any degree Swimming in an ocean of turbulent emotion Use me up, spit me out Pain is all I see Encapsulating me Insolence around me Chaos all around me And you would hide behind your false sense of control You tell yourself you give it up on your own terms Living out of all the pain felt in the past If only you could only see to learn from your mistakes Powdered highs and inhaled lines Lie beside the demons of my mind And sex was always given to make sure they would love you Freely offering yourself that was given and not taken Breaking the body Breaking the mind Breaking the girl Tearing the woman Broken, Unclean, Dirty, Empty Crying, Love me, Hurt me, Leave me Promiscuity, a symptom of past Human repository for men to leave their scent Sparked from a tragedy, a miracle in the make Motherly remedy, a new life is growing

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 25, 2025

Once again the tide rolled in today Thought I'd sink but the waters held me firm Must have come from a higher source above But I never had believed at all I will … Don't know where the waves will take me I’m just a pawn out on the whim of the moon Lunar gravitations peaking All alone, I’m just a castaway, until you By my side August 31st just came and you were smiling By my side And I knew what love could be when you were smiling By my side A child's fragile mind and innocence There was no other name for him "Miracle" smiling by my side Now I have some understanding Through the chaos in my world Miracle will be my anchor In this ocean of insolence In one moment, in one breath Innocence beyond compare Through his eyes, I‘m living life For the first time in my life There is a difference between living and existence

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 25, 2025

Unaware I was lost Until the moment I was found A soul mate who can share my life Under the "House of God" It can never be the same Now that I've found you A missing part of my life When I’m without you The moment you tell me I'm worth it Can brighten the darkest skies

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 25, 2025

Time goes by and here I sit Back to the old struggle I thought I'd found a new haven But addiction is so convincing Only Love can save me Only Love can set me free I've been searching for a love That can make me feel complete Flying high while soul deceiving You turn your back and nothing's left It's wonderful what love can do Scraping the tracks that mark you Only Love can save me Only Love can set me free I've been searching for a love That can make me feel complete It's strange how things that matter Can blow away like the breeze I’m dying of thirst in the desert You'll take what's at arm's reach When he lays his hands on me I can justify the cause All will be forgiven When he testifies his love I have functioned in a haze For the best of my life And now it's easy for me to see What this life has done for me I’m reaching to find courage God help me to speak my mind All will be forgiven When he testifies his love

Five years old, Dirty room Here he comes, nowhere to hide But inside closed eyes, shrinking away Maybe he won't see me, Legs squeezed tight, but not tight enough It's never enough to keep him out There in the dirty room He shows me just what little girls are for Caught in a slide, Caught in a prison Nowhere to hide, legs squeezed tight He shows me just what little girls are for And I'm not here anymore Fourteen years old, Alone with him Guilt and promises in another dirty room “If you really love me ....I promise we'll take it slow” I guess he might have meant it - until I said no Legs squeezed tight, but not tight enough It’s never enough to keep him out Lying there with eyes closed tight It'll be over soon if I don't put up a fight Where the pain ends Is where I begin Scars are hidden deep within Where only memories remain I can tell you my secrets But the pain is my own It’s always a reminder Of what little girls are for So I learned I was never worth as much As when I was down on my knees Or giving away these pieces of me Silent screams in my head Until I don't know who I am I fear that I may have nothing left to give As I'm taking them in I'm losing myself to the wind And my cries to god fall on silent ears Now I know for sure just what little girls are for And I'm not here, And I'm not here, And I'm not here anymore Twenty-three years old, Alone in the car Except for him as he shuts the door I'm suddenly reminded what I am for With eyes closed tight as I'm spinning Legs squeezed tight But not tight enough, it’s never enough to keep him out Oh Please God...Not again, Another piece of me that’s empty and dead Where the pain ends Caught in the slide Is where I begin Caught in a prison Scars are hidden deep within Nowhere to hide Where only memories remain Legs squeezed tight I can tell you my secrets And he shows me But the pain is my own What little girls are for Always a reminder And I'm not here Of what little girls are for Not here anymore Thirty years old and you're in my life And you’re so different from all the rest The words from your lips tell me I'm worth so much more than I know And maybe someday soon I'll believe Your words can save me, erase these old stains And help me to pick up the pieces of me And maybe I'll find some redemption And maybe someday soon I will find forgiveness for all my sins And give me some room to come undone and find myself again I am here ... I am here somewhere

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

There is only so much pain That the drugs can take away Only so much cold to feel Before our fragile minds decay There is nothing left that’s real When you're constantly afraid There is nothing left to feel When they are all running away Running blindly through a sea of sin Fleeing the past of who you've been Every time you thought you found your way Another scar in your mind The past can't be changed You're running away Every time I scrub The stains won't go away What was I dreaming? What the hell was I thinking? Hope can bring you promise It can just as easily tear you down I'm inside the outside I don't know my place If forgiveness is not an option Then theirs a harsh truth to face The past can't be changed You're running away Every time I scrub The stains won't go away

Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 25, 2025

So it ends in this room Where my life will drain away The death of a tortured soul Never had a shot at life anyways Caught in a slide, Caught in a prison Nowhere to hide, Legs squeezed tight And anyone could plainly see The lives I touched are better without me I've given all I had to give Now I'm taking something for myself Caught in a slide, Caught in a prison Nowhere to hide, Legs squeezed tight

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 25, 2025

As life bleeds from my skin I'm back there taking them in Too late to save that little girl I couldn't live there anymore I had to break free of myself Of all that I am, and was forced to This path that I have taken has led me to a light My story flashes right before my eyes I just can't make the distance and go on with this life But then again the choice was never mine to make I'm just a child, lying here Praying to the Heavens To send their angels for me I'm just a child, lying here Praying for an angel To come and take me away If you could just ask the angels To take me to you "It's not your time" they say

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 25, 2025

Awakened from the light In more ways than one Wheels in wheels in motion Directing the course of my life The haze of disillusion The misery of fear The sense it's all so senseless The sum of my whole life Am I the product of another's wickedness? Am I the sum of all my crimes? Am I a statistic in god's plan? Am I the child with a secret? Here in that white room Strapped to the bed My efforts to end this life Was all for nothing in the end In a remorseful state of guilt My love came back to me Only to find his words Were sharp enough to kill There I was naked and standing revealed As I’m looking for my father’s outreaching hand I felt all the love and I saw all the light But it wasn't my time and he cast me from sight Why was I made to suffer? What point could any of that serve? Where was the love and kindness When I needed it the most? They say you’ve got to have some blind faith It's all a part of the master plan But take that fucked up idealism And shove it up your ass Am I the product of another's wickedness? Am I the sum of all my crimes? Am I a statistic of god's plan? Am I the child with a secret? It all leads here To this point in my life I'm under observation By the doctor's eye A path is still before me A fork before my eyes But which one should I choose Between the darkness and the light

Submitted by Immortal — Apr 25, 2025