IT STAYS WITH ME

I am so numb.

I can barely move or feel.

Slowly, it gets darker.

I can hear the night wake outside.

He's inside with the light on.

I am a million miles away -

or want to be.

If I were alone in the world,

I could dance and cry and scream and shout.

But until then,

it stays with me.

No matter where I go,

I am alone.

It stays with me.

SALLY FORTH

Lipstick smeared and mascara stained,

Sally holds her breath.

They pounded on the bathroom door

but Sally's high on meth.