Sometimes
She wants to scream
Scream so loud
The ghosts from her past
Hear and cower
But
All she can do
Is whisper
Salty tears into a towel
Late at night
Muffling her deafening cries so she doesn’t wake the neighbors
She shakes from the anger
She suffocates from the sadness
Each nostril plugged by the tears she holds back
She once looked at him so lovingly
Now she wishes to cause him pain
Pain
Like the throbbing in her skull
Pressure
Like the lies people told her of her future
She cries into her towel at night sometimes
Rivers down her cheeks
Drowning the hopes
Murdering her dreams
And even as she lays there broken
He lays beside her, dreaming
Never Silence the Madness 