Innocence Destroyed

Added 1673024572 by Poppy Radcliffe.

Innocence Destroyed

I sit here and I hate myself

I don’t want meds, I don’t want help

It used to be a better day

Until they sectioned that away

Until they stripped me of my soul

Spent weeks and months and years

Convincing me that I was wrong

That I was ill, somehow undone

“I drank too much”, “I screwed too much”

Somehow my brain just didn’t work

Funny that, it seems to me

It always had been fine

I’d got my grades, I’d done my job

I always had performed

And crucially upon it all

I liked my deranged mind

And now there’s anger in my soul

A pain I can’t abide

A hardness and a broken heart

An innocence destroyed.