Survivors Poetry

Just a Child
by ICONICIDE - July 1995

Just a child, just a child
But in his eyes he holds the world
Scars will tell the story
Of the depths to which he's hurled
Savage bursts of fantasy
Anger and despair
Explain away the hellish pain
Just say that life ain't fair

CHORUS: Just a Child, Just a Child
Just a Child, Just a Child
Just a Child, Just a Child
Just a Child

Daddy's the entire world
He must be obeyed
Fear is such a little word
Beat beyond afraid
Not a person no
He's an irresistible force
Smiles to his friends
While private Evil takes its course

CHORUS

Brother hears the word of god
Sister bleeds below
Mother cowers before a tyrant
She can't overthrow
Dinner hot upon the table
Guns beneath the bed
Middle child sees the future
Knows he'll soon be dead

CHORUS

Beaten from so many sides
Twisted from within
Doesn't feel a single thing
Wears an ice cold grin
Life's a dream, he wants to scream
Fighting to get out
But hair stands up upon his neck
Tonight the Belt comes out

CHORUS

Suffer This
by ICONICIDE - November 1991

No one can stop the pain you feel
You were hurt now you’re hurting yourself
Got to beat yourself down just to prove that you’re real

I was raped when I was only three
Told it was love I was told I was special
Now I won’t let anyone get closer to me

Brought up in pain and told it’s right
I was beaten every time I cried
I wake up every time things go bump in the night

Love is a knife and it makes me bleed
I would have screamed but the cries died within
Now I’ll never be pure for I carry his seed

I lock myself in my own cage
Can’t even bare to touch myself
I’m afraid of my pain I’m afraid of my rage so I
Suffer – SUFFER
Hanging on to the edge of the knife I
Suffer – SUFFER
Cure myself with the blade got to purge all the pain
Put an end to this torture that they call life

Stare at the razor and throw it away
He would win if I died, it would prove I was his
Now I’ll make it my life to make sure that he’ll pay he’ll
Suffer – SUFFER
For the madness he planted in me he’ll
Suffer – SUFFER
Cut him down from his throne vengeance once and for all
I vow Never Again, yes I will be free

Poems by Iconicide