Cool leather seats
Press my cheek
A road trip underway
Front seats bicker
Back seat supine
Belt buckles cut my flesh
Doctor to doctor
Nothing is wrong
But her vitality is fading
Numb apathy
Air conditioning
Sleek silver sedan
My captors
My saviors
My killers
My drivers
Blankly stare,
No meows escape,
Inoffensive in her beauty.
Doll her up,
Dress her down,
Feline chameleon changing.
Girl or cat?
She’ll never tell,
But greet her if you must.
Acknowledge her name,
Voice what she cannot,
I see you, hello there, Kitty.
Ghastly forms,
Shadow figures,
Flitting at the edge of my eyes.
Dimensional portal,
Unknown world,
Divorced from this reality.
Don’t look up.
Don’t look behind you.
Mirrors hold the true self.
Hold my gaze,
Dry those eyes,
Pretend like it never happened.
Reflecting back,
The evil done,
Is it living inside of me?
Mirror, mirror,
Tell me.
What do you see when you look at me?
These limbs don’t fit.
Doll parts inside me.
Small and rigid,
Choking hazards.
Plastic not flesh,
Hollow and bloodless.
Cold and unfeeling,
Attached to the rest of me.
Porcelain fragility,
Painted smile.
Detachable, removable,
I don’t feel the loss.
A screaming corpse,
Persistent aches,
Dead little girls who exist inside me.
Voiceless gasps,
Writhing ghosts,
Raped at birth.
Death before life.
Dominated, subjugated,
Tortured and used.
The girls are dust now.
From the ashes, I’ll haunt you.
Chiu on This 