With Broken Wings

[Pandie]

The saying 'time heals everything'
Doesn't seem to apply to you
When Mama told me, I bet that she
Didn't know those words untrue.

I thought I could move on
And put one foot infront of the other
But these nightmares that you haunt
They come, they scar, they smother.

The worse moment of my life
I seem to live in repeat
And I wake, drenched in a cold-sweat
A nightmare incomplete.

No matter how high I hold my head
Hiding the girl you made me to be
Your name, your smell your everything
Braided in the core of me.

I can move on with my life
I can forgive and I can forget
But I have to live all my life
With that moment of regret.

You smile, proud to know
I cant be rid of you
But little do you know
That it's okay, I smile too.

Because of you, I grew wings
When broken, I learnt to fly
I've overcome my nightmares before
And eventually I didn't need to try.

You marked me all those years ago
When you took just what you wanted
But here I stand before you
Unchanged, undaunted.

In time, I'll forget your name
And the thing's you made me feel
But I'll never forget how one moment
Can make a nightmare turn so real.

So haunt my dreams if you must
I'm sure you feel like quite the man
And though I'll carry that act forever
It's made me into who I am.

I'm a girl that holds her head high
Who will smile instead of cry
The girl who, with broken wings
Discovered how to fly.

There will come a time in life
When your judgement day will be
And you'll discover that in your nightmare
The only face you'll see is me.