Twenty One Scratches

by Sky Blue CMC

The Rhyme

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"Hold your breath, While you watch me fall." Yacqueline sang to her imaginary friend, Skai Bloo. "It's easier to say nothing at all. I need a friend, playing pretend's not working. These pills are useless, and the shadows keep lurking. Let me go, There's nothing left inside. To run and hide is all I know to survive. The nightmare won't end, This life grow colder. Come wake me up, When it's all over!"

"Some of us made it, But no one deserved it!" Yacqueline responded to Prince Rutherford's advisor, Sir Brutus, who called her a homo. "I'm silent, I'm screaming! Sticks and Stones was The Rhyme that they taught us, To fight off our monsters, To help numb the darkness, But what they forgot was, That you don't need, to break my bones, For you to break me, The voices won't stop, Don't let me be alone, Please someone, I just wanna go back home!"

"Lock the door, I'm rotting in my room!" She responded to her mom, who said that she still loved her. "I hope tomorrow Doesn't come to soon. My tears ran dry, My heart's suffocating. The bruises and I are slowly fading. Make it stop, There's whispers in my head! The mirrors echo everything they've said, To 'rise and shine' is so hard to do When all the Light has been taken from you!"

"Some of us made it, But no one deserved it!" Yacqueline responded to her teacher, who called her a fag. "I'm silent, I'm screaming! Sticks and Stones was The Rhyme that they taught us, To fight off our monsters, To help numb the darkness, But what they forgot was, That you don't need, to break my bones, For you to break me, The voices won't stop, Don't let me be alone, Please someone, I just wanna go back home!"

"I remember every story They wrote on my back." Yacqueline said to herself, locked in her room. "Bruises like words tattooed Into my skin in blue and black ink. I remember every KItchen Sink Surgery where family had to Stitch me back together." Yacqueline cried, tears washing all over her pillow, which was the same throw-pillow of Doctor Whooves that she had since she was a boy. Before the sex-change.

"I remember every Happily Ever After that never came to pass" She said to her dad when he came to her room and asked what was wrong. "We didn't go to school In ponytales. We went to school in all the gory
Details of a horror story while Monsters made us victims Of their comedy."

"We, the recipients of their Punch Lines." She continued talking, even though her dad had left the room. "They hung insults around Our necks like signs inviting everyone To join in Their words were invisible ink That they tattooed on our skin" Yacqueline sighed to herself...

"Some of us made it, But no one deserved it!" Yacqueline responded to her ex girlfriend, who called her a dyke. "I'm silent, I'm screaming! Sticks and Stones was The Rhyme that they taught us, To fight off our monsters, To help numb the darkness, But what they forgot was, That you don't need, to break my bones, For you to break me, The voices won't stop, Don't let me be alone, Please someone, I just wanna go back home!"

"I know that I'm Stronger, Broken Heart of a Fighter!" Yacqueline sang to herself and her imaginary friend once more. "My Scars remind me, That I'm a Survivor! This life is a tough game, And I don't wanna play it! I'm reaching for a hoof, Help me make it! But It's too much, So I give up, Just please don't hate me! My letter's on the pillow, With a kiss goodbye! 'I'm sorry, Mom, But I promise that I tried!'"

And with that, pow... she was gone. She didn't try to kill herself again, but she just simply left home with no intention of returning to where she once belonged.


Author's Note

With 1337 words so far on purpose. Based on Scratch21's "The Rhyme" and a few things from "Sorry Jack"

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