Twisted Surrender

The walls are heavy, the air is chains,

My body remembers the touch of pain.

You’ve stolen the stars, stolen the sky,

But it’s your darkness I can’t deny.

I scream, but the silence holds,

Your cruelty’s warm, your mercy cold.

Every bruise, every scar,

Writes a hymn of who you are.

Hope is ashes, burned away,

But your hunger makes me stay.

Hate and want, they bleed as one,

And I can’t undo what you’ve begun.

Break me, bind me, tear me apart,

You’ve locked the cage around my heart.

I curse your name, I beg your hands,

I’m the prisoner who understands.

"Touch me… I hate you.

Touch me… I need you."

I thought I’d fight, thought I’d be strong,

But your darkness hums my favorite song.

My freedom’s gone, yet I don’t flee,

I’m terrified of what’s left of me.

"I’ll never forgive you…"

— yet I’m drowning in your heat.

"I’ll escape you…"

— but I beg at your feet.

"I despise you…"

— yet I whisper your name.

"I’m ruined forever."

— and I want it the same.

Break me, bind me, tear me apart,

You’ve locked the cage around my heart.

I curse your name, I beg your hands,

I’m the prisoner who understands.

The girl I was is long since dead,

You stitched desire into my dread.

Take it all — my breath, my will,

I’m yours forever, broken still.