ANGUISH 

Closed eyes

Trying to stop the suffering

Only to find upon waking

Torture, all the more

Licking these pain-infested wounds

Only to rip them open once again

With stinging words

And harsh thoughts

Of worthlessness

Unattractiveness

Unloved

by all

The one inflicting this horrific pain

Is none other

than

Myself

copyright Amy Pelletier (2007)