Fractured Crystalline Forms

You were meant to protect,
Yet, it was you I needed refuge from,
I didn’t look under the bed for my monsters,
Not when the devil already lay in my bed.

Yet, it was you I needed refuge from,
Crept in with the shadows of the night,
My devil already lay in my bed,
He thought my dreams hugged me tight,

Crept in with the shadows of the night,
Mutating my blameless innocence into my purgatory.
He thought my dreams hugged me tight,
My eyes squeezed painfully shut,

Mutating my blameless innocence into my purgatory,
Never ending torment encased in flesh and bones,
My eyes squeezed painfully shut,
As more of me slipped through the cracks.

Never ending torment encased in flesh and bones,
Father please forgive me,
As more of me slipped through the cracks.
For I have sinned.

Father, please forgive me,
You were the first cut upon my flesh,
For I have sinned.
My self-worth suffered the most.