(Personal) Beneath The Stars

Crying out to the stars of the night
Too weak, too scared, to continue this fight
Battered and bruised from all that she’s seen
Tortured and tested, by what could have been
Living a life that isn’t her own
No choice but to stay until she has grown

So here she will stay
Beneath the stars
Count them,
How many?
The same as her scars
The life she regrets
But never did form
The emotional scars
The freedom she mourns

Her one true love, a small teddy bear
The only one to sit and care
The one to be there through thick and thin
Could never hurt her, will never win

The scars have faded
The mind games have calmed
But the images remain
The first things that harmed
No longer she forms
The valleys on skin
She has given up fighting
Become used to her sin
Used to the pain
The images she will see
Used to the life
She never chose to be
Used to the feelings
Used to her fate
Her life a black hole
She will never escape

So here she will stay
Beneath the stars
Count them,
How many?
The same as her scars
The life she regrets
But never did form
The emotional scars
The freedom she mourns