Obsidian Veins

(A haunting, low piano melody plays in a dark room.

Rain pours in the background.

Suddenly, a massive, blown-out trap bass hits like a physical punch.

Static cracles over the

microphone.) Yeah. I remember.

I remember the screaming.

I remember what you did to her.

Look at me now.

Look at us! Turn it

up!

I was eight years old hiding under the sheets Hearing screams in

the hallway,

the violence in the streets You put your hands on my mam,

broke her down to the bone Then you packed up your shit

and left us completely alone No food in the fridge,

just the tears on her face Had to watch my own mother

try to clean up the place And for five long years,

you were nowhere around While I was burying my head just to

block out the sound I cried every single night,

eyes burning and red

Replaying the trauma, wishes screaming in my head

Crying over Jahseh, crying over you

Two heavy heartbreaks tearing me in two!

So get the hell back!

Get the fuck away!

You don't get to step into my house today!

Where the fuck were you when the tears wouldn't stop?!

When the pressure in my chest felt about to pop?!

You hurt my mam,

then you ran like a ghost Now we don't want you here

when we needed you most!

Get

back! Get back! We don't want you!

Five years later, now you knock on the door?

Acting like you didn't leave her bleeding on the floor?

Acting like I didn't have to grow up too fast?

Nah, look at my eyes,

you're a curse from the past!

I used X's music just to cope with the scars

Screaming in my room,

trying to break through the bars Jahseh taught me how to fight

when the world is a lie

And he taught me how to stand when the cowards run and

fly You think a simple "sorry" fixes five years of pain?

Fixes all the nights Mam was crying in the rain?

Step the fuck back,

don't you touch that latch You're a match to the gasoline,

a toxic match! You broke her.

You left me to cry

in the dark.

But we survived

without you. Get the hell back.

Don't ever come back.

(The sound of a door deadbolt snapping

shut, followed by complete

silence.)