Echoes of a Loveless Home

Mother's words, a knife to my chest

Every wound she inflicted, I can't get it to rest

In her eyes, I'm nothing but a mistake

Screaming for love, all I got back was hate

Father's hands, a rope around my throat

He ate away my sanity, left a big painful hole

He laughed at my tears as he choked out my cries

A man who should have loved, but instead just lied

I built a cage inside my chest to hold all the ache

Always afraid I might carry their anger, their waste

Wore masks so perfect they started to stick

Smiled through the rot till I started to split

My mirror would scream when I looked for too long

Reminding me something deep inside was wrong

I wasn’t just broken, I was made to believe

That love was a weapon and I couldn't leave

As the walls close in, my burdens press and swell

A chorus of regrets I know too well

But someday I’ll find my place, be free at last

Scream my truth, no longer chained to the past