Daylight

A poem by Heartland Creative Writing student, Hailey Henrichs

When the daylight comes it’ll bring me back to you

Just like it always has

Because you say you will keep me safe

Safe from physical harm sure

But mental harm is a different chapter in a different story

We go into combat armed

Armed with hateful insults and hurtful words

Armed with threats and cruel outcomes

The battle lasts an eternity 

But really on lasts a few minutes

You always come out victorious, even if it seems I have won

You pull out a secret weapon and use it like a stake

You drive it through my heart and wait to see me bleed

Once you do, you walk away, victorious

But at what cost?

Hours later you come back to the prey

Ready to heal it, but the prey is in another life now

You forget a crucial thing

If you cut me…I will bleed

If unattended I bleed out

And the moon rises

Tomorrow is a new day

But it did not bring me back to you

For the prey has been attacked to many times

Defeated you walk away

As you do the prey rises

Reborn

Not for you…but for itself

But when the daylight comes it’ll bring me back to you

Just like it always has